I originally considered this post as I believed it was not the sort of content that was of benefit to the perl community. It made Whitehawke feel like he was giving an old college professor some credit where it was due, but on the whole it was a private affair betweent the two of them.

After my consideration, Whitehawke came back and has heavily edited his post. No, he didn't delete stuff, just added the non-italicised part at the end. This has changed the feel of the post considerably. While I still feel the post is a little on the sycophantic side, it never-the-less has greater meaning to the community in that Whitehawke now distills some advice he can pass on from his experience.

Thankyou Whitehawke for sharing this advice, and more so for expanding your post and asking me to re-read it. I appreciate the effort you've gone to, and how you've turned this post into something useful (IM(never)HO) for our community.