You said: "this isn't necessarily good enough for an article in TPJ", but $_ (dude), it works for me! At least its much more interesting than the way that I came across perl. I got started on perl because it is CGI or some other misguided idea that the market jargon managed to shove down my throat in 1997.

I got one of the 21 days books, and the Camel right after. It was only when I finished Camel that it actually clicked: "Whoa! You can do this as well in perl??". Nice article le! I really enjoyed it. May the Camel be with you as well.

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!