In various guises this question comes up fairly often here. A few of my past answers to related questions are to be found here, here and here.

The bottom line is that I can't quite remember how I found PerlMonks, but I have met up with some pretty neat and knowledgeable people here. At this stage I think I may be giving back slightly more than I'm getting, but I'm still learning a lot and don't see that stopping. I haven't yet met any other monks in person what with being at the far end of the world from most of you, but if you ever venture to New Zealand put Dunedin on your inventory and let me know you are comming.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: How you came about... by GrandFather
in thread How you came about... by sub_chick

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