I registered here about 7 years before I had my "pass the salt" moment and finally wrote my first post (asking for help with some XML).

For the most part, you can get a lot out of PM just by searching, or even just choosing it over other links when Googling for answers. Perl has been a very stable language for a long time insofar as stuff that worked a decade ago is very unlikely to be broken by later versions (unlike some other languages I use). This makes it easy to solve problems by search if you understand the basic logic of what you want to do and can read the examples in module docs and read a perldoc page.

In reply to Re: Always some thing interesting at PM! by bitingduck
in thread Always some thing interesting at PM! by flexvault

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