When I first seen Perl from my days of installing it, it was cool. It was not only multi-useful it was sort of easy. The thing that is great about Perl is that you can start making scripts within your first interactions with it. Perl is generally a multi-platform laungauge too. The way that each programmer does it is his/her own way. As said by mostly every programmer... "There is more than one way to do it." For everyone who is starting new to Perl (as i am) just remember that what ever you do in Perl is a work of art. Perl isnt meant to destroy your concept of programming but to broadin your horizons on it. And it will. -john