in reply to Monk ethics: Beauty vs. Power

Personally, I tend to lean towards creating 'working' code as opposed to 'beautiful' code. Often, it just happens to be beautiful because of the way we think when programming in Perl. I think this may have something to do with a linguist having developed the language and the community standing by and supporting an easy-to-use programming environment.
my environment = core language + modules;

Mick