That's a good point. Do you think Robert's tutorial was ever intended as anything more than that? I'm not saying it is as good as the 2nd llama, but it doesn't fall that far below it, and it does rank a good ways above learning Perl from Matts scripts, and it is free. Yet the llama is "nice" and Robert's tutorial is nauseating. A few points of comparison between 2nd llama your list of "mistakes".

• llama also puts subs at the bottom.
• llama also doesn't quote heredoc end tokens
• llama also shows using # as re delimiter, and even calls it their favorite.
• llama also shows C style for loop before foreach, and doesn't mention that for and foreach are synonyms.
• llama also mentions strict late with less coverage
• llama also says ^$ match beginning and end of strings (not lines)

But I suspect neither you nor screamer ever used the word nauseating in describing the 2nd llama.