Yep, it is absolutely a problem. I even made http://perl-tutorial.org http://perl-tutorial.org to battle it somewhat. The worst part is that people who believe

Yep, it is absolutely a problem. I even made http://perl-tutorial.org http://perl-tutorial.org to battle it somewhat. The worst part is that people who believe they learned Perl by doing, instead of reading the reference docs and structured introductory texts, believe themselves to know Perl and speak publicly in the belief that the knowledge gained that way represents universal fact.