I was wondering if I could get some feedback on some scripting / programming languages to jump into for a newbie coder. Perl seems like a good choice because everybody has it and there's tons of support. You can either use it for web page development or linux admin stuff. I don't know if you can compile it to a single exacutable under DOS/WIN stuff though. That would be cool. I've listened to a few people on the list talk about python and it sounds good but it doesn't seem to have the same amount of support as Perl does. C++ would be cool but I don't want to have to compile everything before I can run it. It might be overkill for a newbie. :-) Links on where to go to learn the code would be nice too... Don