Thanks for this, webfiend.

I was pleased with the tutorial - neither just kick around the bucket nor loads of stuff to take in. Also: you explain in a "conversational manner" (if I may call it that :3), I appreciate that in an introduction! Makes it less heavy to take in. I as a neophyte appreciated this.

As for me: now I'm moving on to make some text-based adventures! woopwoop :D Feels like a nice way into Perl for me, oh and linked here's what my first ever Perl document looks like!

# hello.pl
#  - Displays a warm greeting
#  - Puts; print, string-variables, chomp and clear to practice

system("clear");
print "\n        What is thy name?\n\n\nYour reply:";
my $name = <STDIN>;
chomp ($name);
system("clear");
print "\n        and From whence dosth thou hail?\n\n\nYour reply:";
my $usrhomerealm = <STDIN>;
chomp ($usrhomerealm);
system("clear");
print "\n        ah, Salutations $name of $usrhomerealm!\n\n\n";
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Regards