Yes, that irks me as well! I probably one of the few people that didn't learn Perl from Web/CGI programming. I use it for everything but web programming, just because I don't do much(any) web design. I use Perl for client- server programs, text processing, atomated processes, and TONS of database work. I usally get to fustrated to reply as well as people have here(Bravo to the monks who offered some great definitions!), so I usally state,

"You can do anything with Perl!" :-)

STH