For me, programming is a giant puzzle. You start with something you want to accomplish, and put together bits and pieces, like a puzzle, and before you know it you've got the whole picture.

I've been programming since the days of the old Osborne I. It was a great day when I goot my first pascal compiler. Came on 3 5 1/4 disks and used multiple overlays. You used to have to change disks just to compile anything. I've been hooked ever since.

As far as using Perl, I enjoy it from the aspect you can do so much so quickly and with so little code, but thank god for CPAN too!

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.