I am in the military and stationed in Naples, Italy. I am also a student at UMUC taking distance ed classes. I am working on a dual major, CIS and English. I enjoy Perl for the most superficial of reasons: the people who write Perl books make them interesting to read. I would rather read any of the Perl gurus talk about algorithms than some faceless clown bore me to tears with a book about Java or C++. I enjoy lurking on Perl web sites.