Although the 80's singer Rick Springfield isn't a Perl programmer, he did once say something that was quite relevant to Perl. After he hit it big he looked back over his 15 years of struggling to get there and advised:

"Never compare yourself to anyone else, because you are your own worst critic, and you will always come up short."

Along the same lines is the Stanislaw Lem short SF story "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" in which Pirx was the pilot everyone compared themselves to.

Can I do something in Perl that Merlyn or Mirod cannot? Not likely, but maybe someday.