I feel your pain OGB~! In my experience I had a GREAT instructor! You guys on here and my prof in college who enlighted us on Perl. He always said, "never turn off strict", and always comment your code when time permits, but don't leave it out.

After college I got this really cool job as a systems admin using Perl on windoze, I walked into a shop with shaky code, no comments and not a hint of strict~! After fixing programs and converting their unix like utilities to work on windoze the powers above decided to change their web server to windoze. While two of us rushed to learn .asp .Net came along and this web interface needed to be done. So they decided to hire a student who was fresh out of college who knew .Net and has a father who is a .Net programmer. This kid finished the project in record time but me and this other person would be maintaining it (the web person for the web aspect and me for the programming aspect), anyway this other person was skeptical because some of it was in .Net and some of it was in .asp and she didn't like that there wasn't any comments anywhere? I approached the boss and said HEY we need to get this guy commenting his code, this is scary!! I looked at the .Net code and it was ALL over the place, calling here, going there, coming back going there and not a single line of comments!

About a month later the kid comes back to fix some bugs and work on commenting. The kid leaves with everything working (maybe) and one day I go in some of his code to look and low and behold I see these kinds of comments 'global variable' 'private variable' 'helper function' I was in complete awe.... I have since left that college because of it, but I will never stop using Perl.

FU CU