There are nearly as many approaches to composing a reply as there are perlmonks. timtowtdi, etc.

This is a community and I think it's most useful in seeing the diversity of your fellow monks' approaches to answering SoPW questions or contributing code they may think is useful. I really think the most rewarding approach is to use the site, really use it: dig through the snippets, tutorials, cufp, and code sections. Upvote what you find useful, if rating means something to you. Read through the SoPW sections. Try to answer some; if someone actually teaches the seeker (or the seeker actually learns something) - it's worthy of an upvote IMO.

I keep a list nodes I find valuable, but I doubt they'd have much significance to you. We're all at different points in our journeys with perl and programming.

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