I understand what you and davorg are saying, but I still don't think it unreasonable to have a section in the Tutorial pages for existing programmers who know how to do something in C++ for example and the page says how to do it in Perl. Curiousness is one thing, but a single reference page can be handy. Possibly this is too simple an example, but if you started off in Java and learnt that string concatenation done with the '+' operator, you need to know that the string concatenator in Perl is '.'. Yes, that was a very, very simple example, but I hope you know what I mean. One column, with, e.g. linked lists in C++ and the other with how it's done in Perl, with a link to perlref/bot/lol or whichever for the why. I would think of it like a faq. As a busy monk, you don't want to answer a whole lot of questions you've already answered, but you still want to help.

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