It is hard not to like him. But as a recovering linguist (not the programming kind), I find him strangely approachable.
I wish I had his code and programming abilities. He seems like such an interesting guy. Every once in a while Perl6 comes up. I read about it, and like Perl 5 but more so (at least Perl 5 I have used from time to time), but it seems like such an impressively rigorous build-up of work by hardcore veterans. Most of his jokes come off as sarcastically arrogant, and I enjoy how he pokes fun at his work and himself. I only kind of worry about the Perl Jam security talks his "doctor it hurts when I laugh" retort, because malicious doctors force you to laugh all damn day and steal PII and run up your bills online with malicious transactions. I do not want to dismiss TIMTOWTDI, but if you have a limited set of bad ways to do it, you cannot expect people to ignore it. This shows a weird kind of idealism to me in the one area we know idealists do not lurk.
Jokes aside, I will always see him in a special light. If only I could honor him better by churning out some Perl!
I wish I had his code and programming abilities. He seems like such an interesting guy. Every once in a while Perl6 comes up. I read about it, and like Perl 5 but more so (at least Perl 5 I have used from time to time), but it seems like such an impressively rigorous build-up of work by hardcore veterans. Most of his jokes come off as sarcastically arrogant, and I enjoy how he pokes fun at his work and himself. I only kind of worry about the Perl Jam security talks his "doctor it hurts when I laugh" retort, because malicious doctors force you to laugh all damn day and steal PII and run up your bills online with malicious transactions. I do not want to dismiss TIMTOWTDI, but if you have a limited set of bad ways to do it, you cannot expect people to ignore it. This shows a weird kind of idealism to me in the one area we know idealists do not lurk.
Jokes aside, I will always see him in a special light. If only I could honor him better by churning out some Perl!