You'll laugh at this one, for sure. The 1st time I installed perl it was an ActiveState package. I new nothing about the language itself and could care less about who Larry Wall was (I didn't know religion back then:)). The only reason I installed perl was because I needed to learn CGI, and from what I had read it made more sense than coding in C. I had no idea that most OSes come with perl installed per default. I had no clue. Period.

Naturally, I started reading the documentation that came with the ActiveState distro on my NT box. The first time I ever even HEARD of perldoc was when I got the Camel Book and discussed it with a friend. Up to then, I had no idea that most of the bible was inside perldoc to start off with. Hehe, I even remember I was amazed at how may +"Perl FAQ"s there where on AltaVista!

Point being: There could be users out there that aren't aware that they have the FM sitting right under their nose! It would have been great if I had a mentor, someone that new perl or a site like perlmonks that I could come to and ask, "Do you know of a gooood Perl FAQ?", but I had to learn it the hard way. We were all clueless once, and some (such as myself) are still looking for clues.

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

In reply to More on Diversity and the FM. by BBQ
in thread Diversity by jjhorner

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