cberry / cinenet.net wrote: : : I just hit the perfect analogy for Perl vs. orthogonal languages. Perl is : a blank canvas, a set of brushes, and a palette of oil paints. Highly : orthogonal languages are an etch-a-sketch. I'll offer my Maggie if you may. I prefer to think of Perl as sexy (flexible!) where I occassionally want its body (perly.y). Saved by an Inanimate Carbon Rod Stewart! -- Nate II