If you have never used this utility, I will have serious grounds to doubt your Perl skills.
Doubt away.
I have never used that utility. Yet I have been programming Perl since the 90s, and am one of the top 10 posters on Perlmonks. (My nick there is tilly.)
> I have been programming Perl since the 90s, and am one of the top 10 posters on Perlmonks... Care to re-evaluate your criteria?
Yes, for you, I can :) My post was meant only to advocate interactive learning (which I came believe to be faster than the usual code/modify/run cycle). Few things (if any) can beat 15 years of intense experience. Most people, though, whom one is likely to encounter in the real world who claim to know Perl will only have used it for a year or two, probably in combination with something else.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I've been doing Perl for 14 years, and never use a REPL. Occasionally I'll hit 'perl -e ""' on the command line, which I guess is a similar idea...
Hey I didn't mean to offend Perl long-timers. See my response to btilly...
Hacker News is a bit of an exception to what you find in the real world (where 3 years of experience with a language can be considered as better than average).
Doubt away.
I have never used that utility. Yet I have been programming Perl since the 90s, and am one of the top 10 posters on Perlmonks. (My nick there is tilly.)
Care to re-evaluate your criteria?