I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.