>Yes, but can you _read_ it? Java was marketed (at least in its early days) as a WORA language - WRITE ONCE RUN ANYWHERE. Perl was unmarketed as a WORM langua

>Yes, but can you _read_ it? Java was marketed (at least in its early days) as a WORA language - WRITE ONCE RUN ANYWHERE. Perl was unmarketed as a WORM language - WRITE ONCE READ MANY (TIMES). ;) jk, i actually like perl somewhat. but I think Larry and team went somewhat overboard with that human-style linguistics stuff that they applied to perl.