I turned in a programmnig assignemt in perl that was supposed to be a bash script. I figured I'd get half credit at best, but I was running late and already had it written in Perl, so I turned it in and got 18/20. I got marked off because of something the script did that didn't conform to the instructions, but not for writing it in the wrong language. I think he jsut runs the scripts ithout even looking at the source... huh.