> Did you google on PERL and tutorial or did you draw from
Yes, I did.
> hyperbole or imagination? Did you intentionally mislead us,
Yes, I drew both from hyperbole and imagination, and no I didn't intentionally mislead you.
> lie to us, dupe us or was it just ineptitude?
or lie to you or dupe you. Yes, my attempt at using 2nd person narrative to describe the activities of fictional users was probably driven by my ineptitude at expressing myself in prose.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with your post. By your own admission, 57% of the tutorials you've found on Google are one of (or all) outdated, 'lame', or requires the reader to be sensible. This supports my comment that 'Certainly the majority of tutorials will mislead you, lie to you, teach you broken concepts, and basically waste your time'. Note that I didn't say 'all tutorials will mislead you, lie to you, or teach you broken concepts', just the majority.

I don't believe that when a beginner approaches a new language (especially if they have no prior programming experience) that they should be expected to be sensible about what learning material they choose or have some innate ability to guide themselves to well-written learning material. I also don't believe that if you present an outright beginner with 7 choices of material to learn a new concept from that they will somehow instinctively choose the best material. That's why I think it's a good idea to guide people to the best possible material at the outset and allow the beginner to focus on learning rather than disseminating the good from the bad.

As a clarification, all of the 2nd person narratives at the beginning of the misconceptions are fictional and straight from my imagination. They may not hold up under intense scrutiny, nor are they meant to. They are meant as an entertaining read to describe what a random, fictional beginner possibly encountered. They aren't based on my own experiences, but are rather drawn from my imagination and from the actual experiences of literally hundreds of people I've found to have been mislead during their learning process. I apologize if this is unclear, but I guess you'll have to chalk it up to my less than adequate ability to express myself in written English language. Alluding to an ulterior motive to mislead or lie to people is uncalled for. (The previous statement is in response to 'When I found that google search rather different than you implied, I distrust your whole post.' rather than to the admitted 'inflamatory rhetoric' to 'mirror my own')

Thanks
m.att