Still here.

Started out with shell and awk in the 1990s for all those little glue tasks*. Though I loved both these tools, it gradually dawned on me that Perl was better.

Yet it's the fun side of both Perl and Perl Monks culture, especially compared to Python and Stack Overflow culture, that keeps me coming back here, year after year.

I'm also fascinated by the long and quirky history of the Perl Monks web site, and take special pleasure in the freedom of not having to stay on topic, and in the teasing of other regulars (such as the Bod), as indicated below.

Fun References

• Chickens References - provoked by Bod and harangzsolt33 (couldn't resist :-)
• Elvis Lives References
• Experience Point References and Pranks
• Fun References

Some Quirky Perl Monks History References

• paco References
• Let's make BBQ a Saint!

See Also

• Perl Monks Culture References
• Re: Organizational Culture (Part II): Meta Process (Perl Timeline) - mentions London.pm quirky sense of humour, e.g. London.pm declares war on Paris.pm and London.pm sponsoring a camel at London Zoo

* update: while I enjoyed hacking out little helper Unix shell and awk scripts, most of my large-scale coding back then was done in FORTRAN, Simula, C, C++, Cobol, Pascal and 4GLs, as described in more detail here. further update: before joining Perl Monks, I hung out on the fun with perl and perl golf mailing lists, and even the London.pm mailing list from Sydney (like DHA from New York), so I guess I've always been attracted to the fun side of Perl culture, further indicated by The Lighter Side of Perl Culture series and Golfing References.

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