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Message: [QUOTE="Chris, post: 4752560"] You've already received feedback that indicates Perl is great for what you are wanting to do. Adding whatever GUI interfaces you might want later using Perl/Tk is always there as an option too (even if GUI interfaces aren't important right now). But I think your main "win" in using Perl is the potential to run your app from a single code base under both Linux and Windows. Or at least get very close to doing that. Perl/Tk on Windows works rather well too (what very limited playing around I've done with it.) If you leave your app as VB under Win32 and Perl under Linux you will have two code bases to manage. There are plenty of Perl Win32 people lurking around in here to help with any Win32 Perl issues you would have. Perl under Win32 is quite powerful. There is little need to speak to its power under *nix... Chris [/QUOTE]