merlyn once told me that programming in Java after grokking Perl is like riding a motorcycle with training wheels.

:) Excellent. I remember him saying that PHP is "training wheels without the bike"

Perhaps Merlyn's Secret Uncovered! needs updating.

Simon Flack ($code or die)
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