I think this is exactly right. Knowing about perldoc and how to use perldoc is very important to becoming a good Perl developer (and, really, learning the documentation system for any language will be important). Two things that are not mentioned in the article are the '-m' and '-l' arguments. I use '-m' every single day. It is very useful for quickly viewing the code for a module, and, thus, it is a useful tool for seeing how others have solved particular problems. '-l' I use less frequently but it is useful for finding the absolute location of the module on the file system.