While the message you are delivering (i.e. "perldoc is your friend") may be good, I take issue with the way you delivered it. Surely your point could have been made as effectively without flooding the discussion with 100 lines output. I'd hesitate to directly quote perldocs at all, in fact. A pointer to the docs would be enough, and the sufficiently motivated person would look them up themselves. What you've done only serves to annoy people (like me).