By all means, the manual pages rank first. And this includes
any Perl problem. Second is any documentation coming with
the product, be them files or dead trees. Third would be
Usenet, mailinglists, search-engines and books; it'll depend
on the problem which ones to try. And ranked somewhere in
between is interaction with real people, be it in real life,
a MUD or on IRC. As a last resort, I'd actually formulate a
question and post it on usenet, a mailinglist or a webboard
(a webboard would always be last). But that seldomly happens.
Abigail
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