Chris Wagner wrote:
>  Not to be melodramatic, but u can create the entire Internet using
>  ActiveState Perl.  U could build Yahoo, Google, and Amazon for starters.
>  It's really suitable for every conceivable task other than audio video.
>  

Note entirely true ...

I have a tiny win32 microphone recorder application written entirely in 
Perl ! Zip file included ! Gui was  developed with activestate's guibluider.

Beware , buttons legends are in Greek, adjust accordingly, and oh, 
released under GPLv2 :-)