[carld]

Perl in and of itself is a simple, robust, and easy to learn language. Its incredibly similar to PHP in many ways, and many programmers could easily transition over to Perl. Regardless of its similarities though, any half-decent programmer can program in any language. Once you understand the concepts and principles of programming, it is strictly a matter of syntax to get the desired result in the language you choose.

While I'd like to see Planetarion's code become publicly available so that we could help fix all the glitches and bugs with the code, along with adding in necessary features, I can completely understand the necessity of keeping the code closed source. There just needs to be more incentive provided to the people who will step up and give their free time and energy to better the game for Jolt and its customers.