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Increase supply of labor, decrease wages. Econ 101, folks. The Wall Street types benefit from immigration. There might be "more jobs" but there will be lower pay checks. Working Americans are the targets in this upper class scam. Polls show that most Americans are for moderating immigration. Strangely, rich Democrats are the ones most for open borders and "free" trade. The party of labor? No way.

"compilable perl" has been "on the horizon" for 15 years. I suggest you not measure it by that rate.

The great downfall of Perl is that it's slow: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

60X slower than C. 30X slower than Java

If sed/awk/grep/sort/tr is not up the task, sure, try Perl for those one offs. For serious computation? Fuggedit.