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Today is June, 6th, 2012, a few days past being a monk for three years!, how time passes. Still, not quite that lonely Perl programmer I had been anymore :)

Interesting Nodes and Links:

• Sort on Table headers
• How to Report Bugs Effectively
• An informal introduction to O(N) notation
• 7 Stages of Regex Users
• Tao
• references
• Learning Perl Online
• Simple Module Tutorial
• Re: Socket Programming by NetWallah
• From Initiate to Monk
• Who is Perl? (Anthropomorphizing Everything)
• See it Later
• Perl Infrequently Asked Questions (perliaq)
• http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz
• how to make this code more efficient? Need to Compute the Min and Max of a Temperature using an equation
• Numification of strings
• File Reading and Closing confusion

DEBUGGING AND INTERACTIVE DEBUGGING TUTORIALS:

• %perldoc perldebtut
• %perldoc perldebug

Tutorials:

• Perl and Bioinformatics with substantial contributions from BioLion
• Text::Table Tutorial.

XP cheers:

• Monked at 9:00 a.m. GMT on ..August, 18th, 2009.
• Reached 500 XP...............August, 27th, 2009.
• Pilgrim......................September, 7th, 2009.
• Friar at 3:24 p.m. GMT on ..October, 16th, 2009.
• Reached 1000..................October, 25th, 2009.
• Hermit.......................November, 21st, 2009.
• Chaplain.....................January, 11th, 2010.
• Deacon..........................April, 05, 2010
• Curate..........................July 13-14, 2010
• Priest at 12:18 a.m. GMT on ..July 02, 2011
• The 591st Monk to have been granted entrance into the Saints in our Book on a stormy summer night.
• First congratulated on attaining sainthood by my buddy Ratazong.
• Featured on the Best Users' List

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#Each parameter passed to a subroutine can be named, this enables you 
+to pass them to subroutines
#in any order.
#the concept is known as Simulating Named Parameters and it employs ha
+shes.


print "The result is:".addem(OPERAND1=>2, OPERAND2=>8);
sub addem{
        my %hash=@_;
        return $hash{OPERAND2}+$hash{OPERAND1};
        }
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Monastic observations

• A brief history of PerlMonks
• Quiz of the Week
• Answers to quiz of the week
• http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi
• http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?recommended_online_tutorials
• http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Bptutorial.pl
• http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Quick_start
• http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Tutorials
• http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTOs
• Advancing oneself personally and professionally as a programmer (discussion)
• parsing mismatch from blast output
• Using Perl to automate the recovery of program understanding
• Alex the Serb: This guy has an amazing relationship with NodeReaper