i think thats the stupidest thing, to give dishonarable mention to something like that, in fact the only reason i started to learn perl at all was because i saw the results of some of the perl obfuscation contests, and i became obsessive over learning how they did it all, i think that "unreadable" code is one of the great point of perl, though since i started on my journey towards understanding it all ive learned of the myriad uses of perl that exist, awesome post petdance