Many thanx trantor.
I agree with the existing common-points of thoses 2 languages.
In fact, if i'm starting to code in Perl, but i've already done some small "apps" using sockets...
but my main pb, was that the doc wich i had one hand on, was pretty poor
And i didn't want to spend my days 'parsing' RFCs... :)
Anyway, if i'm interested into Perl, it's for:
- the huge string processing capabilities
- the efficienty of the code compared to its size
- and last: because my mentor (an all-type-administrator)
told me that if i wanted to become a real admin', i HAD to learn perl, moreover for *nix boxes...
he told me "otherwise, u're just a ...wannabe" ... :p
It's the last thing that made,the most,me feel obliged to learn it :)

Many thanx for your post, i'll take the time to learn it slowly, to assimilite it in the best possible way.
And first i'll start with NET::IMAP:Simple... :)