I used to think that Learning Perl published by O'Reilly was a horrible way to Learn Perl as well but that's because I hated paper. Paper is such a horrible thing. Finally, my girlfriend kept trying to convince me that I should actually read and now that I have, man am I loving it. I wasn't too fond of 2nd edition and apparently Randal wasn't either, hehe. Even he suggested that I obtain the 3rd edition and I'm very glad that I did. Props to my buddy out there. He got Randal to sign it for me! :) No, I would have to say that is I should repent and I guess that what I'm doing now. Maybe I'm going to be a bit unrealistic here but here's the answer. . .
There is no other way to learn. Definitely read Learning Perl 3rd Edition.

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