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For what it is worth, I have been diving into the perl/c goodness in the mod_perl innards as I hack away, so maybe I have something useful to say here. I am a mediocre C programmer (just don't use it that much when I can use Perl), but I know enough to read the C constructs without having to go to the reference book.
So first off, if you don't know C, go get a intro to C book or something like that to at least get an idea of the way functions/variables are typed, etc. Understand what a struct is (think ob