I am all to familair with the sceanrio of "humming along in Perl" and suddenly it is required to be rewritten in another language :). I haven't done much converting from Perl to C simply because the fact that Perl is much quicker and easier for me to work with, it is practical, as the name implies :). I didn't want to lead someone wrong with a bunch of my personal opinions, and I had made the connection between the basics of Perl being similar to the basics of C, with the exception of having to declare variable types in C :).