Seems to me you are at a bit of a disadvantage -- I learned C first, but I did so little with it that I didn't get any ingrained habits. Perl is my first in-depth language, and I learn everything by looking at better code, better coders. If merlyn posts some code, I mentally dissect and store it away. My code has gotten lots better -- more concise, but still stylistically intact. Just read and do -- same with all languages. (Just so you know, someone laughed at my code once and said "You're a C coder, aren't you?" -- I thought it was pretty funny actually...)

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