Short of making this sound like a "Sunday morning testimony" Learning Perl got me re-interested in programming. Like Aighearach most of my programming experience was in basic from the days of yore, but upon reading thru the "Stroll Through Perl", I was able to start writing my own code.

Even though I have been using perl for ~1.5 years, I still use the Llama book for a quick ref, if I have forgotten the syntax or need to show someone something. If someone asks me about learning perl, I ALWAYS recommend this book.

More of a butcher than a hacker,

Joe