Perl changed the way I think... just like reading certain books (like "Stranger in a Strange Land") has. Perl was the best programming teaching tool I've encountered. Other languages came easily to me after I learned Perl. Perl changed me, or at least helped me discover something that no language had been able to.

As for what "type of hacker" I am... well, I'm about to turn 21 (Nov. 9th), I'm a college student, a Fraternity brother, and a social guy. I hack for fun (and profit), and give advice here and on DALnet in my spare time. I'm not a malicious hacker. I am disciplined (as my posts here and my ramblings on IRC would show), and try to convince others to become disciplined.

On a somewhat religious note (oh, I'm not atheist -- I understand there's a stereotype that computer science people are atheists... Larry's not! And I'm Roman Catholic.), the words "discipline" and "disciple" have the same root (Latin discipulus). By being a disciplined Perl programmer, I am, more or less, a disciple of the "Perl Order", or what-have-you. And I try to convert the curious to this order as well.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area)
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