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I've [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=184380|mentioned him] here before.

He programs more than a couple of languages. Competently. His approach to learning languages apparently varies depending on the language. There is a reason that he describes having learned Perl and Python that way. I'd assume that he learned C, Java, Smalltalk or PDP-10 assembler using different strategies. (All of which he has been paid for doing.)

The "snippets" approach that he mentions can be well or poorly. The idea when done well is very similar to the Perl Cookbook. For many kinds of jobs that occasional Perl programmers encounter this approach is effective, which is one reason that the Cookbook comes highly recommended.

I'll point out the typo to him.

Cheers,
Ben