note c4onastick <p>I have a interesting position (from reading many of the posts above), I started out with PHP. I switched to Perl because I wanted to get <i>away</i> from web programming and most of the really cool &quot;features&quot; that I liked in PHP were inspired by Perl (case and point: the preg suite). So if most of the things I love about PHP were inspired by Perl why not go to the source?</p> <p>Recently, with Perl, I have done things that I could never do with PHP (well, not easily) and that alone brings me excitement. I believe &quot;Making easy things easy and hard things possible&quot; is very exciting to any programmer.</p> 676072 676072