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>> I'm not saying this same problem doesn't exist in all >> other languages, just that perl has so many ways to do >> things that the problem is much larger. >my experience has been the opposite, due to the tremendous >quality of the manual. For the benefit of those who have been involved in Perl for a while to the exclusion of other languages, let me remind you: Perl's documentation is superb. Don't take it for granted. It should be a major factor in advocacy. I've been working for a while now in ColdFusion, after working for the previous while in Perl, and the difference is night and day. The CF documentation is often just plain wrong, telling you that the language does something that it doesn't. More often, its information is vague and inprecise... you read something and immediately 2 or 3 questions about it come to mind which are never answered. I've learned not to trust the documentation and resort to testing things out to find out how they work... of course technically that means I'm relying on undocumented behavior, but the poor quailty of the documentation forces me to do this. Perl's documentation is not perfect, but it's definitely on the high quality side compared to what's out there.