Often when I come to the monastery it's to take a break from working on code and the last thing I want to do is read more code. I suspect a lot of us visit during breaks from coding and feel the same way when we fire up the browser and click the perlmonks bookmark.

Maybe we just need to accept the fact that a lot of monks don't want to stare at huge chunks of unintentionally obfuscated code when they visit, and try to find an approach to the subject of learning Perl that is more palatable to fatigued perlers looking for a break from work.

I was thinking about my Perl studies yesterday, and trying to think of something that I could do at least once a day to learn some new and interesting Perl concept. While I pondered, I remembered fondly my old copy of The C Puzzle Book and wished there were a similar volume of Perl puzzlers available. Perhaps a Perlmonks "Perl Puzzlers" or "Perl Quizzes" section with short but meaty chunks of Perl code would be a good start? (nysus had a good start on something like this, I think, but I haven't noticed any new posts lately).

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