Thank you all for your feedback. It was interesting to hear about MacPerl. I had no idea that they had customized it for the Mac so much. I've been using Perl on a Win32 platform for several years and the two just did not intersect much.
So, I have decided to go with the Mac OSX, partly because that was the way I was initially inclined, but your responses were key in helping me solidify the decision. I appreciate your time--it helped a lot. The references were also good. I will be checking those out as I get further into this project. Thomas Whitney.
