\_ SMTP quoth Victor Odhner on 5/21/2002 14:32 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Mark Berkwitt wrote: \_ > I'm considering learning Perl but I don't know what \_ > Perl will give me. \_ \_ Perl has proven a great language for CGIs, that is, \_ external programs called by a web server to service \_ web requests. That's the good news. The bad news is \_ that in-process services such as PHP are more efficient \_ and will be replacing Perl over coming years. Um, mod_perl, anyone? And as to PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.leak.php Now there's an important feature in the *core* of any language. David