I agree. I am forever encountering Perl idioms that are effective, efficient, and even eloquent. I am often awed by the cleverness of these idioms, and how people have found ways to make Perl do things its creator (and his many helpers) never imagined. Many of these are so "obvious" once I see them that I wonder why I couldn't think of them - but I couldn't. I'm not yet so fluent in Perl that I can speak it eloquently. Right now I'm happy if I can speak it effectively - get something to work.

I've found that as I peruse the questions, I learn many things, often unrelated to the questions being answered. Just recently I learned what autobundle is for. Since I had previously painstakingly downloaded every module I needed on each computer, this will be a great help to me. It wasn't something I even knew to look for - but now I have a very useful bit of information. That's one thing that makes PM so helpful. You can learn stuff you didn't even know you needed.

In reply to Re: A work of art by spiritway
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