The affliction:
I started lurking at PM a few months ago for much the same reason as you describe. Result? Too many hours spent reading as much as I can about the language, odd looks from the wife as my bedtime reading became the Llama and other such tomes, and generally too much time spent on Perl Monks

The symptoms:
Patient's moods swing between elation when a particularly annoying problem finally gets swatted to deep depression as he goes to yet another recommended module and can't get further than the title (and sometimes has a problem even with that!!)

The cure:
Finally turning that page in some book out there which allows me to know as much as Mr. Muskrat

The lesson:
Avoiding the above is quite simple - forget the script and go fishing instead. However my advice is to study the tutorials already recommended, ease yourself into perl and if you like it then I promise you you won't look back...

Apologies: for being off topic and probably not helpful - some nodes just create a little spark somewhere...

In reply to Re: Display a web page by jonnyfolk
in thread Display a web page by RockyRR

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