That said, I don't think it'll be hard to output "1 ok\n" in other languages, so why bother with Perl?

indeed. at a previous assignment, i wrote a testing library for korn shell scripts, in korn shell. i wrote my tests first, and produced over three thousand lines of the highest quality ksh i've ever written.

that said, i'm glad i'm back to programming perl. the ability to write expressive tests makes expressive programming safe and easy.

~Particle *accelerates*