This may seem odd, but I'm desperate for a project to work on and this seemed like something to do. Being a novice it's hard to find a project to jump in on.

I'm burned out from doing book exercises and never really liked doing random exercises just for the sake of doing exercises. So this is practical from a project point of view even if it is impractical from a resource usage point of view.

I do have this book on order Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook and am reading Programming Perl but again, I need something to gain experience with and is practical.