raru, u need to correct ur statement about PERL NOT BEING OO. PERL 5 is full OO... (O: hoina ra.. yes before that it was not full because it came a long way (O: PERL is very easy is you are familiar with UNIX, sed, awk, ex and regex (O: I am not defending PERL against RUBY or anything (O: i will definitely read your links and educate myself. its very interesting.