++Juerd

I probably shouldn't have mentioned this tutorial, without going back and reading over it using my newfound understanding of the language. The thing that was appealing to me about the tutorial was that it compiled (which is not true of a signifigant number of online tutorials) and his writing style was easily understood. It is worth noting that several of your complaints could be (emphasis on the could) construed as style arguments. But to say that is as much to retro justify having posted the link in the first place, which I shouldn't be doing :-).

An unfortunate fact is that it may be the best online tutorial that is widely available. In fact, I came across via a link from http://perl.com so in my youthful innocence I assumed it was accurate.

Oh, well.

Cheers,
Erik

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