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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight!
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> 	I'd say that until Larry writes a Perl 5 book so that
> 	there's some easily accessible documentation for it then
> 
> There are over a hundred pages in the perl 5 man pages split out
> over 27 sections.  I believe free, printable, and searchable on-line
> man pages qualifies as easily accessible documentation.

I think that's a matter of opinion :-) Most people I know (me included)
prefer a book any day of the month.