At the heart of the issue is the fact that I refuse to use Java for this project, I prefer not to use .Net because of the portability issues, and I'd like to get away from C++ for obvious reasons. To me this means Ruby, Python, or, as mentioned above, Perl. If anyone can tell me of a way to meet the above requirements in either Python or Perl, I'm all ears (I just prefer Ruby). -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.