> I mean if you go from supplying perl and some perl-scripted functionality, you > either have to drop the functionality or some engineer has to rewrite the code > in a different language - something that usually isn't cheap. I've never tried > perl2c - if such a thing exists it probably embeds most of perl as a library. The few things we needed we rewrote in BASH - it was pretty easy (I did most of it) -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"