Larry has written a number of papers describing his motivations, both initial and current, regarding Perl. I suggest that you do a web search, find these papers, and read them. Please do NOT persist in trying to contact Larry, at LEAST until you have done enough reading to ask meaningful questions (that are not covered by his writings) and understand his replies. Larry is a fine man and a great treasure; let's not waste his time on things that can easily be solved by a bit of (ahem) research. -r -- Rich Morin: rdm@cfcl.com, +1 650-873-7841, http://www.ptf.com/~rdm Prime Time Freeware: info@ptf.com, +1 408-433-9662, http://www.ptf.com MacPerl: http://www.macperl.com, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MPPE MkLinux: http://www.mklinux.apple.com, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MKLP # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org