I'm sure there is good perl and good perl programmers. But, having spent a portion of the last several months going through 3000+ line perl scripts written by

I'm sure there is good perl and good perl programmers. But, having spent a portion of the last several months going through 3000+ line perl scripts written by a person with no formal training who had figured out just enough to hack something together but not enough to efficiently use functions, nor to maintain the code they wrote, I'm feeling less then sympathetic with the OP and perl in general....