My experience is that the Perl community documents better than any other scripting language community. Most everything is perldoc (which gets installed as man p

My experience is that the Perl community documents better than any other scripting language community. Most everything is perldoc (which gets installed as man pages when install a cpan package) with clear examples right up front where you can see them. And that's not even talking about the built-in documentation. Even in 1994-5 when I first learned Perl, I learned it completely from the Perl man pages and not from a book. The man pages are comprehensive, easy to read, and organized well for reference. Ruby, Python, PHP and Node really need to get their act together and follow Perl's lead in this area.