From Good Advice and Maxims for Programmers:

• #11907 Looking for a compiler bug is the strategy of LAST resort. LAST resort.
• #11943 Ah yes, and you are the first person to have noticed this bug since 1987. Sure.
• #11958 The bug is in you, not in Perl.

And in case you think I'm just being rude, I'll share this secret with you; remembering these (and the other) maxims has actually helped me to avoid looking in the wrong place for problems... many times. The presentation may be gruff, but keeping it in mind will often shorten the path to finding the root cause.

Bugs in Perl, and in CPAN modules do turn up from time to time. But they're the issue far less frequently code we've touched, or data input we're accepting.

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