Yet another flamefest at Perlmonks? Count me in.

I know just enough to have inspired a thousand web developers,

Yeah, inspired them to write secure, maintainable, bug-free code. Inspired them to only release code they feel will contribute something. Inspired them to contribute to central code repositories (like cpan) to minimize needless duplication of effort and encourage peer review. In other words, inspired them to write code completely different than yours.

written books

Have you looked at the quality of most Perl books lately? They suck. I haven't read any of yours, nor do I intend to. There is a small minority of excellent Perl books such as Data Munging with Perl written by the guy you're flaming who is exponentially more respected than you in the Perl community.

spoken at conferences and won awards, and solved lots of problems people were having both technically and not.

Spoken on what? How not to program, using your own code as examples? What awards? Matt Wright's insecure programming & open spam relay awards? As for solving problems, I'm pretty sure you're creating just as many for anyone who will maintain that spaghetti code of yours.

Does that mean I am a guru?

Yuck, you just wrecked a perfectly good word. Now I'm going to have refer to the likes of Elian, davorg, TheDamian, merlyn, tye, Abigail-II and others as something totally different.

It is no secret that I am not a programmer and I have no intention of being one.

If you write code, you are a programmer. Check the dictionary definition if you'd like. You can't just totally suck and say "well I'm not a programmer." Keep your garbage code to yourself, you're corrupting minds that could be molded into doing something productive.

I still know that there would be a hundred punks like you claiming to be better.

Punks? Now that's not very nice. And yes, if you did consider yourself a "programming guru" there would be a hundred (actually, more like hundreds of thousands) of people who would consider themselves more skilled than you, and rightfully so. Kind of like the current situation now isn't it?

As far as my archive goes, it is a valuable resource which you obviously have not bothered to truly investigate

Actually, I did a survey, 80% of people say it was useless crap, the other 20% asked me what the pretty dollar signs mean. There is tonnes of excellent code out there, no need to very poorly duplicate it's functionality.

As an open source project,some of the best perl developers from around the world have contributed to it

Once again, Matt Wright isn't one of the best perl developers in the world, and he definately wasn't one of them 5 years ago (sorry Matt, you just make a good example ;-). And while those 500 monkeys randomly typing on 500 typewriters did turn out substantially better code than you, it still wasn't that good.

and the current architecture is far superior to any applicaiton development framework for Perl CGI that exists today.

Damn, I just threw up. My stomach couldn't handle that last sentence. Guess you won ;-P

Heh, </flame> that was fun, we should do it again sometime. This entire post is meant as a half-joke so don't take it too seriously, just remember to look at your work objectively and ask yourself if it really does contribute something before publicizing it. If you feel it does, more power to you, but don't do it just for your egos sake :).

Have a nice day :)