Thanks for the responses, everyone. They bring to mind some things I should go about learning, and some things I should clarify.

First off, things I should learn - I'll be picking up Mastering Regular Expressions and Higher Order Perl fairly quickly.

Secondly, a clarification - right now, I don't actually work with Perl for my dayjob(or at least, not most of the time - our sysadmin gets me to write him tools every once in a while) - my employer is running a pure M$ shop, and so I work primarily with ASP.Net and C# for my day job - all of my own personal projects are Perl, however.

I know a few other languages, in addition to the standard Web Developer pile - Javascript, XHTML, CSS, and at least one server-side language(in my case Perl, although I can fumble my way along with PHP as well).

I actually already own a copy of Object Oriented Perl - I thought it was interesting(as was Moose), but I haven't encountered a situation where it immediately sprang to mind that "hey, I should use OOP for this!" - I generally design my projects in such a way as to not need OOP. I do use it for some things - I just don't encounter too many situations where I'd like to use OOP and don't already.

I guess, really, I'm looking for cool things I can learn that I don't already know that can speed up my development time and let me reduce repetition. That's why learning about things like map and grep was awesome - because I could instantly see how much they saved on time(and keystrokes).

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