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in reply to Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make

The biggest mistake I make is when I'm prototyping something, I usually forget to put
use strict; use warnings;
at the top. Since over half my prototypes get rm'ed, this usually isn't a problem. But, when a prototype morphs into a real project, I'm not using strict. (!!!) I once had to retrofit 20+ modules in the same project with this "fix".

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Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
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Re^2: Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make
by bcole23 (Scribe) on Apr 02, 2005 at 23:16 UTC
    That's the worst.. which is why I do things like:
    use strict; use warnings; print "hello world!\n";

    IOW, even very short programs. (note that is a poor example as I'd just command line it.. but you get my point) This is the first lesson that I learned and I learned it well. The next 3 years was learning to RTFM.