Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.