I'm posting in reply to this because this post is more relavent to this thread.

I think you've outlined the basic problem: You are thinking of your brain and thought processes in Perl terms. New programmers don't KNOW those terms, so they don't view their own mental processes in that framework. When we learn to think in the Perl framework, we become better programmers.

Thinking in frameworks happens in all sorts of things. Role Players are often heard to describe themselves/movies/most anything in terms of their favorite game.