Yet another comment...

I learned Perl relatively late. Before that, I wasn't too interested in it (Another scripting language to learn!?) since I mostly did low level C system programming since performance was paramount, and needed to do very little scripting on the side. I was (fortunately) forced into learning it in order to take over an existing project. Since then I've slowly migrated myself into working more and more with it.

Perl really is like a Camel. For me, the first look/smell wasn't the greatest (What's this magical "$_" stuff?). After using it on several problems that would make C seem like the "Sahara desert", I'm much more enthusiastic.

bluto