If you only want a single namespace for everything, I recommend sticking to only scheme (note: I really love scheme for that property, I'm not being sarcastic).

If you only want a single namespace for everything, I recommend sticking to only scheme (note: I really love scheme for that property, I'm not being sarcastic). Once you learn -enough- perl, there's a sort of overall consistency that's actually really nice, but there's a gap ... simple perl is very simple, but mid-level perl is generally a mess until you get to the expert level, and then its awesome again. There's probably an analogy to text editors here.