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I'm of the school that measuring trivial knowledge is not a good way to identify good programmers.... I've been studying how to train novice programmers for a

I'm of the school that measuring trivial knowledge is not a good way to identify good programmers.... I've been studying how to train novice programmers for a long time and programming even longer. Any decent Perl programmer should know the answers to these questions. (Anyone who can't answer most of these questions with ease doesn't understand the language.) Certainly these questions are not the only questions you should ask in an interview to find the right person, but if you want to know if the interviewee understands Perl 5, these are effective questions.

bigiain 16y ago
" ... but if you want to know if the interviewee understands Perl 5, these are effective questions." Yep, the more I think about it the more impressed I am with that list. It very neatly encapsulates a whole lot of Perl idiom and knowledge of common Perl errors (and "modern" ways to write Perl to reduce them), as well as more general "modern" programming techniques as used in Perl and the way other language's concepts are used/described in Perl. Great list Chromatic, consider it added to my hiring resource arsenal.