I can't tell you what works for you but I can tell you my experience as you sound kind of like me who uses Perl for the fun of it. I look at it as a kind of fun puzzle to figure out and I get great joy writing programs as bad as they often are. I've programmed in short spurts over many years when the Perl bug strikes.

Anyway, my advice is to start from scratch, at least until you get reacclimated. Perl has a lot of little gotchas and essential idioms you should know and you aren't likely to remember them. I've "relearned" Perl several times. Each time it gets easier. But I always found I got a deeper and deeper understanding of the language.

I also highly recommend checking out Moose, a framework that makes it exceedingly easy to write OO code in Perl. It has made my experience with Perl very pleasurable and fun. I really enjoy programming with it. I only started using it last year thanks to PerlMonks who tipped me off about it. Wish I knew about it long ago.

Good luck and happy programming.

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