Sorry but I totally disagree.. I think ;-)

Perl pours hot cofffee into a programmers lap .. it doesnt tho that is the problem it is very flexible and forgiving not of errors in syntax maybe (hmm) but it is certainly forgiving in terms of poor programing method.

I think the most telling comment you make is that other languages require the learning of programin philosophies .. thats the point (IMveryHO) perl does not you can just code top to bottow with no real requirement about what goes on in between. The language imposes no discipline upon the coder, that discipline has to come from the coder themself.

I would not say that perl is a black art, I would say that it is a lot harder to code good perl than it is to code good java, for example.

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Zigster