in reply to perl ?compiler?

But it ran perfectly OK. I know because everytime I got a nice transfer of a considerable sum of money to my bankaccount ;-)

No, seriously, how do you expect anyone to know what name.pl is supposed to do? Perhaps this program does not output anything to the screen.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James