On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jason DeStefano wrote: > heh. no, i mean C. it does a LOT more than perl--and a lot faster too. :) Remember "fast" is not just what the computer does after the human does all the work. I don't think you can write, compile and execute the C code faster than I can spit this onto the command line: perl -e '$bob = 1 << 4 and print $bob, "\n";' Andy