According to Sean A. Walberg:

I've posted a PDF of my presentation from last night:

http://ertw.com/~sean/perl.pdf

There was a bit of talk about Perl's handling of scalars, are they a string, integer or float? The article I was referring to is

http://www.perladvent.org/2003/16th/

Thanks Sean!

I've updated the write-up of last night's meeting to include the above links, as well as those mentioned last night...

http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/03-04.html#jan

Thanks again for an interesting look at Perl.