Perl

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I have been reading Michael's perl code that he has written to collect 
stars together.  I have pretty well concluded that perl is the next 
language for me.  Looks like it will do for me what QB used to do.  Since 
you all will have to live with me being a bad perl programmer instead of a 
bad QBasic programmer, I thought I should allow comment.

One question:

Can I get directly at the hardware under perl?  The thing I still like 
about QBasic is that I can do operations on the ISA bus.  I can also read 
and write to the serial port.  As a hardware guy, these are things that I 
like to do.  So can I get to the PCI, ISA, and the serial ports under 
perl?  I am quite willing to assign them permanently to one user.

Tom Droege