My name is Nate, I've been active in the *nix community for about 6 years now, I've just recently started to pickup Perl as my first REAL programming language. I'm getting the hang of it more and more as I go on, I still have some troubles with it, basically I'm almost forced into using it in my day-to-day job as a *nix admin. I've now gotten very interested in Perl so I've decided to join the experts hopefully they can provide some valuable insight to this seemingly awesome programming language.