Patches welcome. (This is usua... nevermind *grin* - Juerd) I'm sure that if you write a good tutorial, it will be included in the main distribution. Just wishing for things isn't going to make it happen - someone will have to write it.

It seems my rant was posted a bit too soon, as perlintro is a nice tutorial for beginners. It doesn't cover everything I think it should, but I guess it's a matter of time before more docs get into the distribution. I myself am not a good writer, so I won't be the one to write a tutorial.

I posted this to find out if there is already a tutorial that is accepted as "the best", but there hasn't really been an answer to that yet.

Don't take this the wrong way. This is how Perl is being developed. The surest way to get things added/changed is by just doing it, and submitting the patch.

Maybe someone here wants to write a good tutorial that covers everything? Or wants to convert an existing one to pod? Perhaps the document we're searching for already exists, but just isn't named perltut?

My post isn't just a "hey, I want this and you should make it happen" post: I want to know how others think about this and whether what I'm wishing is sane. 

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In reply to Re: Re: Perldoc, the tutorial by Juerd
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