So, a few years ago when I decided to start programming, I started out in Perl. Before I got very far, I became frustrated, and switched to C. I think that because the documentation for C is more beginner friendly, and so I flourished in C, and have used it for projects for the last few years. However, I have become sick and tired of lack of string support, problems with cross compatibility, and general code obfuscation. I remember the good old days in perl when not a shit was given about array declaration for strings, and am wondering whenther it isn't time to give perl another go, or whether something like Java is a bit more bearable. What's your opinion, macosx.com?