Eggcellent meditation my friend! This really opens my eyes to the fact that I really don't code that much..

Damn, thats sad, or is it??

Case in point:

One program, 5 scripts in C.
I decided it needs to be better with only real knowledge in C and ksh. After reviewing the code, and seeing that as far as my knowledge extends, its not going to get much better in C. So I begin to explore other options, and in tern I stumble onto Perl. Was I ever amazed at the community, support, and tools before my eyes! Back to the point.

Moving forth to rewrite the code in Perl at an attempt to optimize it, I learned SOOO much more about programming in general that I could have ever imagined.

A few weeks later(Come on I knew nothing of Perl!) I had my one and so far only production code.

What do we have now? One program 2 scripts, faster execution, smaller footprint, less memory usage, and a really happy manager!

Since/During, I have only written an IRC bot, a few cron scripts, a GOD AWFUL attempt at an ESN converter, and a few scripts here and there to make life interesting.

I guess what I'm getting at is this, YOUR RIGHT! Not to cheese out ehre or anything, but.... Perl: Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible, since Jan 31 1988!

Sorry bout the rambling, he he.

-- Can't never could do anything, so give me and inch, I'll make it a mile.