As a long time Perl programmer, I am a little disappointed with the lack of comments on this post. I generally follow Matt Might's blog, and I am impressed by

As a long time Perl programmer, I am a little disappointed with the lack of comments on this post. I generally follow Matt Might's blog, and I am impressed by previous posts. Unfortunately, this tutorial is likely to leave beginners more confused than when they started. I have to encourage people to look at chromatic's free book "Modern Perl" instead.