As a native German (alles klar!), Im going to disagree with a few of the above posts. Of course, this is just my opinion.

• I dont look at perl as an english language, I look at perl as perl. Does this make sense?

When I speak english|german|whatever, I put myself, sub-conciously, into an english|german|whatever mindset. When Im coding in perl, I am most definitely in a perl mindset. In fact, most bad code stems from me not being in my perl mindset, just like my german is poor speaking to my mum, when I've spent the last week talking the engrish.

Smitz