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in reply to The First Ten Perl Monks

Let's continue. :)

Users who arrived shortly after monk number 10 in the root node (cinder_bdt):

The standout pioneer non-insider Perl Monk is BBQ. Hailing from Brazil (making him the second international Perl monk, after yiango from Cyprus), he was by far the most active of these intrepid early explorers, selflessly spending most of his Christmas holidays in 1999 livening up this place. After making the first ever post in the Perl Monks Obfu section he stayed on for a further ten years. Accordingly, I feel he thoroughly deserves to be made a saint. Heartbreakingly, he is just 233 (update: 95 now) shy of the 3000 XP required for Saints in our Book ... yet if enough of us upvote his classic old nodes, he may finally reach the 3000 XP required for the sainthood he so richly deserves! ... especially as XP wasn't a part of this site from the start, as pointed out by another pioneer hero, chromatic.

Update: Yay, BBQ finally made it to Sainthood on Aug 4, 2023 - Let's make BBQ a Saint!. Bod asked what has become of BBQ today. I don't know. All I've got is that he moved from Sao Paulo Brazil to San Francisco some time between 2000-2005. Unfortunately (unlike many of the other early Perl Monks) there is no BBQ user at Everything2 or Slashdot.

Some historic BBQ posts:

In another fascinating piece of early PM history, BBQ cautioned newbie trigger to be less trigger-happy:

The resourceful BBQ then made an astonishing save, somehow managing to work around an early PM bug to salvage newbie trigger's lost original question from history (Re: Static news system: "the poster managed to mangle his own post, but I backed up the history enough to salvage the original question below in italics..."). Heroic!

Update: In another surprise, I see that thelenm, who I remember from the early Perl golf days, also "graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan". Mike is also a Scrabble expert ... and knows CmdrTaco in RL! (though isn't a fan his code ;-).