As it turns out, I love programming assembler. The sweet feel of optimising the code. Some of my earliest stuff was writing a polygon fill library in assembler so I could do three-d stuff (this was after I saw doom). It was fun, but I wouldn't do it again. Way too hard to maintain, and not cross platform enough.

I'm definately with you on the doing it easier bit. Perl was, as some have said, a breath of fresh air that revived my wilting enthusiasm for programming.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.