every one knows that a good perl programmer can do in a few lines of code, that would take other languages many pages this is because of all the hard work put into the high level language by the open source community, so a perl compiler needs to look at the machine code or the assembly code or in reality a perl to NASM converter to get a good compilation and allow to be used on many operating systems. not to mention the creative ways to use jump statements to reduce the amount of code in a program... mrbaker_mark@yahoo.com is any one ready to work on this ???