use strict;
$| =1; #unbuffer output

print "Loading . .";
for (1..8) {
  sleep 2;
  print " .";
}
print "\nDone.\n";

##</code><code>##

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'