in reply to Learning Perl?
From there, I bought Learning Perl (Second Edition--that's what they had at the time) and read it on a cruise. Yes, I learned it without having a computer handy. I eventually got Camel II (III hadn't come out yet) and read it.
I spent a year or two hacking Perl for CGI before I started doing serious work with it. I don't really remember how I found PM, but it proved to be an excellent resource, and for a fairly long period was the site I spent most of my time on.
I eventually made an effort to get involved in the Perl 6 development work, and wormed my way into a position of some significance. I also tried to learn about Perl 5 internals by hacking on Perl 5. Suffice it to say, that project is still in progress...
Even today, though, I still don't know the whole language. pack() and unpack() are mysteries to me (my Perl Geek Code says that I pack and unpack my suitcase), and I'm still constantly looking up all sorts of nonsense in the docs. I've never used most of the system-specific stuff, like getpwnam(). The list goes on...
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--Brent Dax
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