Re: Perl, the new generation

[Nathan Torkington]

Dan Sugalski writes:
> People think they *must* know all the core bits of a language, and they 
> think that consists of all the stuff we ship with perl. (And, let's face 
> it, we ship a *lot* of stuff with perl) It's like you're not allowed to 
> know only a part of a language anymore--that's somehow ungeeky or something.

Hmm, it'd be interesting to see a Map of Perl.  Operators, functions,
modules, features, etc. divided up according to topic and complexity
and laid out around the central blob of "Basic Perl" that everyone
knows (variables, assignment, math, chomp, printing, etc).

I'm sure zealots (hi Simon!) would want to turn it into a curriculum
guide, but I'm just thinking it'd be curious idle fun.  It would also
get across the idea that All Perl Is Not Made Equal and you don't have
to learn everything before writing Hello World.

Nat