Re: Perl, the new generation

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:51 PM 5/16/2001 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>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).

Given the different ways you can come into perl, it might be more a job for 
Damian, but then the map'd likely be all Quantum or something... :)

                                        Dan

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