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I have to say, I personally find it quite interesting to hear the story of a monk and how he/she (*NOT* implying here that Ozzy is female :) got into the world of programming Perl.

With the large number of people here in the monastery now, we overall only know each other by the names we use here and the reputation each of us has gained - however large or small, and know absolutely nothing about each other (other than the persons who attend a PM meeting and come to realize that they are on perlmonks together)... I, am not so forunate. I haven't been to a meeting - dont even know if/when they are...
I cant say overall how valid this post is to the monastery, but I find it very interesting as I stated above. Finding out little tidbits about other monks is fun to me (yes, I know we can read their homenode, but not everyone puts anything informative on there *like me* and there are s**tloads of us) and provides the possibility of making a new friend in real life other than just online - that is if 2 people live in the same area.

Im sorry you had to go through what you did to get introduced to the world of Perl, but hey, at least you picked a really cool language =)

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-oakley
Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)