Started programming in 1994 using GW BASIC, progressed {and i use the term loosely} to Turbo Pascal and VB, decided to attend DeVRY in 1998 where i learned real Visual BASIC, C, C++, Java, SQL, COBOL, HTML, Cold Fusion, JCL, Unix, blah blah blah... started a job after graduation, in 2001, where PERL was the language. I am now very much interested in the power and usefulness of PERL, although i am still fresh to it's inner-workings and true potential.