I'm currently employed working on web-based perl projects, the code of which varies from the delightful to the obscene. I'm somewhat fanatical about standards and doing things The Right Way, but that's not to say I'll discount any of the MWTDI if it's valid and demonstrably *not stupid*. Besides which, the fun part of perl is thinking 'hmmm... I wonder what syntax I'd need for this', making a guess, typing it, running it, and then seeing it actually work! I also like obscure things, so meaningless (but not per se obfuscated) things like this please me: perl -ne's/([^\s]*)/${\(join ",",map {"\"$_\""} <${1}>)}/g'