I know loads of people loved Perl, and I'm not suggesting that my perspective is mainstream or even defensible. I'm just saying that I was a young sysadmin in t

I know loads of people loved Perl, and I'm not suggesting that my perspective is mainstream or even defensible. I'm just saying that I was a young sysadmin in the "bad old days", but that I didn't like Perl. Of course I did use an awful lot of Perl scripts. That said, I have to revise my original comment. I forgot that I was a big fan of Tcl/Tk/Expect back in the day. So it's not like my taste is better than anyone else's :)