Sticking everything on one line makes it a one-liner. Perl is ideal for exotic line formatting, obfuscation and JAPHs. merlyn can probably rewrite a 5,000 line script in 500 lines (or less). I think you need to ask yourself, do I need 50,000 lines of code? :))))

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.