It's not that easy bein' green                        
    Having to spend each day the color of the leaves  
    When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
    Or something much more colorful like that              

    It's not easy bein' green                            
    It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
    And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're          
    Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water    
    Or stars in the sky                                        

    But green's the color of Spring                            
    And green can be cool and friendly-like                  
    And green can be big like an ocean                      
    Or important like a mountain        
    Or tall like a tree

    When green is all there is to be
    It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
    Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
    And I think it's what I want to be

        Bein' Green, by Joe Raposo

  http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

(or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)

coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as

  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

shasums are

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e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d  perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

md5sums are

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b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7  perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time to
propagate round CPAN.

Nicholas Clark