Recently a fellow admin and i were talking about what makes a computer scientist a computer scientist. His arguable point was that a person who genuinely is a computer scientist is someone who is obsessive about something. It doesn't much matter what that something is apparently. In the long run i saw his point and it seems valid even. So having passion about your code (that some could term obsessive) is apparently normal for the field.

Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing i don't know, but you can at least take heart that you were meant to be a perl hacker (if this theory holds true)...

jynx