Well, there are many reasons, but the most important is that if you use BAD codes in your Perl script, then the script will error out more gracefully rather than trying to execute and then probably crash your server.

Secondly, all variables are localized (via my and local), which is more efficient than using standard Perl variables. There are many more reasons...search http://www.perl.com for strict.

Regards,

Eliot Lee