How about jython? Cheers, Vishal On 15 Sep 2010, at 22:52, "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Steve Harville < <mailto:steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx> steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In any case, trying to do team programming with perl can be annoying, > because you need to really get people to agree on common practices and > conventions, because otherwise you have six different ways of doing the same > thing, and your code turns into a mess. This is why I was looking at Ruby. -- If you're working with Oracle, Perl is the #1 choice. The DBI and DBD::Oracle modules cannot be beat for Oracle access. As Cary said, Perl can do anything. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: <http://jkstill.blogspot.com> http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: <http://jaredstill.com> http://jaredstill.com