One should notice that one doesn't actually aquire the title of "Monk" until Level 5. I just got there myself (yesterday!) and, really, it's only now that I feel I have a firm grasp on the language and Perlmonks itself. Besides, Scribe to Monk only took me about 2-3 weeks, so it's not really that bad of a wait. Level 6 seems like such a long, long way away though. (^v^)

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Update: I misspoke here. I'm not an expert at this language. 'Firm grasp' means I know where all my resources are and I can use DBI without the manual. 'Newbie' generally implies that one is kinda flailing about to establish oneself in an area that one is completely unfamiliar with. I assume this is mostly a issue between definitions.

It happened to coincide that last week I started reading some Perldoc things straight through in order to just blatantly broaden my horizons, as opposed to just referencing it for syntax as needed. Then I hit "Monk".

It is my perception that the crossover between good posting and authoritative posting happens in the Level 5 range. I havn't felt anything that I said was authoritative yet, and it will be another couple of months with the language before I feel that way about any but the 'newbiest' of questions. I speculate this will correspond with the time it takes to make Level 6.

-Lexicon

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