Everyone's heard about the results of the Plat_Forms competition, right? http://www.plat-forms.org/2007/results/ http://use.perl.org/articles/07/06/20/1621234.shtml I highly recommend the following exercise: can you pick out Jave, Php and Perl programmer's just by their appearence? http://alvar.a-blast.org/plat_forms/