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brian_d_foy's node, How do you master Perl?, has some very good discussion for someone introspective on where to go from here.

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Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

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Re^2: What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world? (OT: Humpty Dumpty)
by Anonymous Monk on May 12, 2005 at 20:19 UTC
    Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

    It doesn't :-) The notion of "Humpty Dumpty as an anthropomorphic egg was an invention of Lawrence Charles Dodson (writing under the pen name "Lewis Carrol"), in his famous book _Alice In Wonderland_.

    As for the origin of the nursery rhyme, according to the following link, the rhyme was about a fallen cannon, which could not be raised back to it's firing wall during the English civil war.

    See http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/humpty_dumpty.htm for more information.
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