Wow merlyn it must be cool to have every user smart! Can I trade you some for some of mine? ;-)

How is it that JIT principle is the way to go? It makes sense if there are going to be "frequent" modifications to a script or it is a quick and dirty script.

A compiled script does have some merit. What if you don't need Perl on every machine? Or in my case, you have users who know enough to be dangerous?