Not that I'm a C programmer (or any other kind of programmer, for that matter), but my understanding of Perl lists and usage of list transform functions (grep, map, etc.) has increased dramatically in the past several months. While I have had the opportunity to delve into a meatier project at work recently, I believe I can attribute most of the increase to hanging out on SoPW on a daily basis, and trying to solve other people's problems. When I have a solution that works, I then compare it to other (much more experienced) Monk's solutions.

I know this has yielded results for me because my boss, who has a strong C background, has become annoyed on a few occasions. Here is a direct quote from his informal review of some of my code:

I wan't it to look like other programming languages, rather than being syntacticly correct cryptic perl....

So, be careful what you wish for :)