> Perl's critical failure is that most CPAN modules expect admin rights and a gcc build environment in order to install correctly. See this thread: http://www

> Perl's critical failure is that most CPAN modules expect admin rights and a gcc build environment in order to install correctly. See this thread: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=630026 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=630026 For how to install CPAN modules in alternate locations. Be sure to note the setting of PERL5LIB to the location you choose when running Perl in order to resolve the modules in the custom location. > Also devs are used to having named arguments for their functions. Not supporting that is just silly. There are some idioms available to address this. If you are interested, reply and we'll discuss them :-). > And finally it's difficult to google things like $/, $", $% and $_ when you're confused. If you have access to a Unix machine with perl installed, then running: man perlvar Will produce a man page enumerating the predefined variables which are difficult to use a search engine to find. HTH