Larry Wall writes: > And frankly, Perl is a blue-collar language, and a bit into populism, > and so I'll tend to favor blue-collar words over white-collar, all > other things being equal, which they never, ever are, for a language > designer. I'm not puckering up when I say this, but Larry just said exactly what has been preying on my mind all day. Perl users aren't standards implementors, they're day-to-day hackers for whom the word "byte" is familiar and "octet" exotic. Nat