Thus it was written in the epistle of James Ots,
>
> Perl: I've heard a lot about Perl, but never managed to learn it yet.
> Probably because I've tried to learn from the man pages, which is a very bad
> idea.

Yup.  There are a lot of better options, at least two of which come from
O'Reilly :-)

>       I also keep hearing about it being readable, but I've never seen a
> single readable piece of Perl code yet.

Isn't this just a little like saying, "I've never learned to read Russian and
I've never seen a single readable piece of Russian yet"?

Ted
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