No, you've completely misunderstood my post. I was saying "I have to do all the effort to install perl and then I still have to do more work to actually write a program". We then took a detour where it was claimed there is no effort involved in installing perl. Well, sometimes there is. There is with other languages too, but at least once I have them installed I can just use them without having to go read about about current use statements I should be using.