> And here's some constructive criticism for the aspiring Perl advocate point taken, thanks. Perhaps the Perl success stories should be mentioned more often,

> And here's some constructive criticism for the aspiring Perl advocate point taken, thanks. Perhaps the Perl success stories should be mentioned more often, too: Want to launch a one-man search engine? Perl makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-architecture.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc... Amazon.com, del.icio.us, Craigslist, the BBC? All have significant parts written in Perl: http://www.fischerlaender.net/perl/perl-used-for-web-development http://www.fischerlaender.net/perl/perl-used-for-web-develop... http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/bbc.html http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/bbc.html