I will endeavour to finish it, in fact the luxury of writing without a publisher has a lot of benefits, However I'm much happier with the code (which only took me a weekend to write) than with the prose (which I've laboured over for months) and i'm desparate for some constructive criticism to help me improve it. That's the main reason for my aforementioned despondancy: I felt like I was writing in a vacuum - do all writers feel like that?

"do all writers feel like that?"
Yes, I think we do.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of short article writing for publication, and I have a personal editor past whom I run everything before submitting it for publication, so I'm not suffering under that particular burden at the moment, but I have four novels in various states of completion that are languishing on back burners in part because of that "writing in a vacuum" feeling.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);

- apotheon CopyWrite Chad Perrin

If pressed, I will admit to having been an editor. Further if it means earlly access I'd be happy to volunteer my services such as they are.

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

early access! - I'm flattered, honestly.

I somehow thought my enthusiasms for esoterics like language implementation were shared by very few people :-)

Give me a few days to collect my thoughts and I'll get back to you on that.