> experienced Perl developers always tell the less experienced ones to avoid shelling out from Perl if possible The reason for that is obvious, right? By induc

> experienced Perl developers always tell the less experienced ones to avoid shelling out from Perl if possible The reason for that is obvious, right? By induction, shelling out from Perl would only result in the called process shelling back to Perl. So it's much better to just call that Perl code directly.