One last thing before I leave this hole in he web.

My code...My personal code...helped the scientists at NIH map the human genome. It provided the basis for the online community around the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It handles billions of pounds annually at banks in Europe and Asia. It runs 4 intelligent buildings in 3 countries. It allowed me to build and sell two companies. Has been published 7 times over. It was requested for presentation at the 1st two OReilly Perl Cons. It underlies New York City's Post-September 11th command and Control website that was erected within 2 days for free and is still 100% active today.

In addition, under other people's customization it runs at NASA, GE, SGI, GM - still AFTER 6 YEARS, several hospitals, at least 1 emergency rescue unit, more personal websites than I can count. It has been translated into 4 languages. And it has been the basis to launch many successful e-commerce websites and careers in web design and development.

Does this make me a guru programmer?

No.

And frankly I couldn't give a flying hoot about being a guru programmer. With only a few exceptions, every guru programmer I know, especially those in the perl community, has ZERO clue about the purpose of technology.

It does mean however, that I helped a lot of people solve a lot of problems. And to tell you the truth, you pin heads can yap all you want to about the fastest, cleanest code, but I have been successful and have helped make the world a better place despite my MANY flaws and despite the MANY flaws in my programming. So I am satisfied.

And I will tell you another thing, if it was not for me and Matt Wright, Perl/CGI may never have even been born. We were the ones who made it accessible to the masses. We were the ones who made it fun in the 1994 when all of you folks did not even know what CGI was (probably) :)

- Selena Sol

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