I was looking over "The Basics" and didn't get a "comment on..." bar at the bottom. So, here are my comments :-)

First off, good info, all technically correct. My only comment was grammatical. The sentence "If this doesn't work your perl interpreter may be in another location to find out where that might be you could type" needs to be broken up, along with its continuation in the two lines following.

Oops, I lied. One minor technical point. At the bottom, you say, "try running it by just typing helloworld.pl at your command prompt." That should be, "./helloworld.pl", just in case they don't have "." in their path.

Good stuff. Scooby snack for ya.

*Woof*

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