I learned to program in Perl, and it is by far my favorite language - but I don't know if I would recommend it to start out. Sure, there are some fantastic books (Camel book, Learning Perl), but I've found that I'm somewhat spoiled on it, making it very difficult for me to easily program in other languages. Really powerful things you can do in perl (like a hash of hashes) are much harder to do in other languages. I'd recommend learning Java first, so you know a "real" programming language - and then move onto Perl. Nick -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org