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bike shed (Score:2, Interesting)
I think the "bike shed" metaphor is a good one in this case:
From A bike shed (any colour will do) [freebsd.org]
The docs are a good reference but probably not the best thing to learn Perl from. That's not necessarily a bad thing, nor does it make Perl unfriendly to "newbies". There's such a wealth of decent books to help out. I learnt by reading through "Learning Perl" a couple of times and kept "Programming Perl" by my side as I dived into things.
If people do need volunteers to help clean up things I'd be more than happy to help, but I feel that it would be better as a top-down project than bottom-up, splitting the documentation into managable parts etc, rather than a general call to make things better. That's just my opinion, I may be wrong.
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