Perl is awesome. Its like writing a sentence or paragraph. I decide how I want to present each sentence or paragraph. Then I get to write it in Perl. Its a ver

Perl is awesome. Its like writing a sentence or paragraph. I decide how I want to present each sentence or paragraph. Then I get to write it in Perl. Its a very easy language to learn. My first language was C back in 1994. I was in high school and encouraged to learn C before I learned Perl. I read my books. I kept on going after it. Then finally six years later I started learning Perl. Perl is a great language. I haven't touched Perl6 yet - I bet its even better. It might take me 20 years just to do a hello world in it and optimize it. Larry gave us a great place to start. Guido is awesome too. "I don't like big bloated snakes though" -- I heard this back in 1996 or so... We have been focusing on languages for 20k years or so. We have built computers for about 100 years - and invented languages to talk to them.