Choose Perl. Choose an editor. Choose an OS. Choose a screen name. Choose a f**king big Internet connection. Choose CPAN, $_, hashes and -w...choose strict and wondering how the f**k Erudil's obfuscations work. Choose sitting in that chair reading mind-numbing, spirit crushing posts, stuffing caffeine into your body. Choose fretting over lost XP, spending hours to discover the Illuminati, and finally becoming a saint instead of the selfish, f**ked up brats who don't know how to use <code>. Choose the future. Choose PerlMonks.

(Apologies to those linked here. I'm not saying anything personal. I also apologize for the slightly censored language, but I wanted to keep as much of the tone from the original as I could. Of course, mine's quite a bit more positive...)

Update: I've had several people ask me what the heck I'm talking about. The original quote is from the movie TrainSpotting, and can be found here, toward the bottom of the list.

Guildenstern
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In reply to MonkSpotting by Guildenstern

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