user Elliott I was helping my teenage kids run a Majordomo
account and it kept crashing when it tried to send stuff to bad
addresses. There must be dozens of Perl scripts to validate
email addresses, I thought. But I couldn't find one so I taught
myself Perl so I could write one. <BR><BR> That was 14 years and
thousands of lines of code ago. <BR><BR> Once upon a time, a
very long time ago, I was a COBOL programmer. I was terrible at
it and soon got a proper job. These days I am a partner in
e-commerce company <A HREF="">eButtonz</A> and, ironically,
spend a lot of my time up to my elbows in Perl. <BR><BR> Before
I discovered Perl, I never understood why anyone should love a
programming language. Now I know. <BR><BR> I am old and fat and
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