Perl (for all you's who have trouble with using alternate mouse buttons, or who don't know what a scroll bar is) Is a very useful, very powerful programing language that even most programers treat as if where the holy grail.

like Java, perl is a cross platform language, (it works on many computers.)
the perl mongers home page points out that " its more than a language, its it's a cultture and a floor wax. "
http://ny.pm.org/
[bragging mom]
page two, (the old home page) still features a picture that includes my son, one of the early perl mongers, eli the bearded -- who still keeps in touch with some of the NY members (he has been in CA 4 years now)
http://www.netmonger.net/~chris/nypm/
[/bragging mom]


my other obsession