it creates more ground to cover

Heh, after playing Risk 12/7 for the past week, I can further the above metaphor (jokingly, of course).

Using the traditional Risk map, and not taking into account pretty much anything, I would say technically inclined websites are Europe, and beginners to the internet are mainland North America. (Don't worry about the fact that one continent is made of websites and the other people.) PerlMonks is perhaps Spain (the blue #7 on the map). Greenland and Iceland (yellow #5, blue #2) are, obviously, for technically inclined people; they know HTML, CSS, and maybe can put together a computer if given instructions. (Have I lost you?) The branch of PM is probably Quebec (yellow #8) as you describe it.

As you can see, it is not the best strategical move. However, if you are successful, there is possibility a bridge may be built to connect the two countries. If that were true, then there would be a bunch of newbies here in Programming land. Newbies, who, of course, know Perl. That leaves Spain weak, and able to be taken over!

My batterty is running low and there is no power source in sight so I will leave you to imagine the rest.

By the way, PHP is probably somewhere around Peru...

(Note that I wanted to incorporate the online communities map but got too lazy to really think it though.)

And you didn't even know bears could type.

In reply to Re^2: PerlMonks for newbies? by Lawliet
in thread PerlMonks for newbies? by cosmicperl

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