Jonas> Is Python a descendant to Perl? I thought it was the other way Jonas> around. http://www.clug.org/presentations/oodemo/oofamily.html As far as OO features, I believe Perl got several ideas from Python. Perl has been around a fair bit longer though. -- Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com) http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/