Actually, maybe he is. I think we should be very careful to put people on pedestals like this. Damian, merlyn, myself, and others you didn't mention might sometimes have ideas noone sane would ever have, inside the sugary layer with chemical flavours are regular coders. If would take some code of Damian, and post it here for review, without telling it was from Damian, it would be shredded to pieces, if only because it doesn't use strict or warnings. Merlyn probably has posted more articles containing buggy code on Usenet than the average monk has read articles. As for myself, well, my code is of course perfect, it's just taking the rest of you a long time to agree.

Never assume that because it's written by person $X, it has to be good. Unless $X eq "Knuth" and $X is willing to pay money for each mistake found.

In reply to Re: Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI (fallibility) by Abigail-II
in thread Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI by hacker

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