Perl and Tcl seem to eliminate themselves from the play-off round. Just learned that Larry Wall declared on 25-May-2000 to cease the development of Perl. There is no more keyboard key for new special character. Yes, the famous $#, $!, $:, $ something. And Scriptics has changed to Ajuba, left the Tcl community stunt not knowing about the future of Tcl. Well, suddently only the two "real" object-oriented languages Python and Ruby enter the final round which could take a decade. Dat ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com