<p> As so often happens, we resist things we don&#39;t understand, in favor of those we do, but if we only take the time to learn…</p> <p> Geek-dom ahead, you have been warned.</p> <p> I do almost all of my programming in Perl these days–in fact, for the last decade and a half or so. I&#39;m not interested in getting into a langage war here–I know Perl&#39;s weaknesses as well as its strengths.</p>