Just think, if you had come up with this stupid idea a few years ago, your own name might now be immortalized in the annals of Perl!

Maybe, but I'd say not likely. As it happened, the technique was named for the two fellows who extensively analyzed it and wrote a paper about it, but not for the guy who first (as far as can be discerned from the Historical Records) came up with the idea, Michal Rutka. Here's the Usenet message.