I think Perl is great. When I try to code C, lately, I find myself wishing for a garbage collection routine.

From a system admin point of view, I don't want to have to worry about compiling. I want a script that works quickly to save me a headache. If I want something more complex, perl can "scale" to that end of the spectrum. As the old saying goes: Perl makes easy things easier and impossible tasks possible.

Don't let code bigotry affect you. People have their favorites, and you will too. If you are going to be a philosophical programmer, you will be interested in the inner workings, but if you are going to be a practical programmer, you will be interested in making your code work.

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/