dawgiestyle

That's cool, the way I got my feet wet in Perl was to create a script that pulled stock quotes from quote.com. I then adapted that to grab weather forecasts from the Weather Channel. Those were both done using readily available modules.

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to start by replacing all my shell scripts with perl equivalents.
For web scripting, I'm not sure which situations would call for either php or perl, though perl does seem better for extracting information from other sites/sources.