I'm a die hard perl lover. I have a hard time writing the same code the same way over and over and over. The best part of perl is the ability to write things in different ways and still have things be pretty readable.

The reason I like perl monks is memetic. Were it not for perlmonks, I would not have heard about WWW::Mechanize, or open my $file, '>', $filename, nor would I have read about closures — or indeed ever figured them out.

I get used to programming a certain way, with little variations, and PM gives me more variations and even whole new approaches to try.