I've been traversing on the pages of Perl monks for a few months now, trying to get a feel for the ambience of PM and to know a few of the monks. One thing I don't understand is why everyone writes these JAPH things. Is this sort of an initiation into being a monk? I get ridiculed by my husband if I ever log into perlmonks.com because he tells me that I'm trying too hard to be something that I'm not. He's convinced that I have too many other activities to do than to get involved in writing about Perl. (Obviously as you can see he's not interested in seeing me spend more time with the computer than with him.) What brings you back to Perl monks on a daily basis? Is it to vote? To gain more XP? To see what witty JAPH the other Perl Monks can come up with overnight? As for myself I still don't know what the attraction is exactly but yes, I do log in on a daily basis. I went to school for programming - but I just don't seem to have the obsession with programming that is almost required just to be good at what I do. I am jealous of the rest of you because you love Programming Perl, I like Perl too, but I can't drag myself to the computer after I get home from work. It's too much.