in reply to Just How Absorbed Are You Into Programming?
s/Programming/Perl/
I'd classify myself as a "Perl enthusiast".
Although I do write a fair amount of Perl code at work, I do it more by choice rather than because it's what I've been assigned to do. Coding is not my primary role and I'm certainly not a Professional Programmer by any stretch of the imagination.
I guess I'm in a rather fortunate (and perhaps envious) position whereby I'm pretty much able (most of the time) to choose my own projects and set my own schedule. And I choose to assign myself tasks that require me to learn and use Perl :D
And yes, I'd say I'm pretty much hooked on Perl ;)
I have several weeks of time off work coming up over the next 2-3 months, and I plan to spend a fair chunk of that studying Perl and working on a few of my own little Perl projects :)