Overview

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Basics of the language:

• Scalars, arrays, hashes
• Function definition
• Regexes
• Control structures (if, else, for, while)
• IO (screen, keyboard, files)
• References
• Introduce multi dimensional data structures
• Packages
• OOP
• Anonymous functions, dispatch tables
• Introduce CPAN (MetaCPAN)
• Go over a number of modules for text processing