well
maverick, to be 100% precise
jeffa was the first person to ever introduce me to perl. i remember we sat around with some "Online Perl Course" that if you completed it, they would send you a certification! (how exciting was that!) Well, I went to work for a company that needed web based "stuff"... and the first few generations of the products I developed for them were in perl. for reasons that i'll never understand, i decided that PHP was better for generation 2 (ugh) and servlets were better for generation 3... (ugh*2) :) i guess i've made my mistakes eh?
so anyways, i knew that you were "good" at perl, and i remember sitting around the lab and doing "snippet" show and tell... where you would say: "see, this is how you unbuffer output, and this is why it is useful!" and I would say something incredibly clever like: "um... isn't there a module on CPAN for that?" :) hehehe... now, 5 years later, I can honestly say that I'm still floored when you say something like: "isn't that in $`?" :) curse you and your damned special variables... but hey, isn't it good to know that there is a publicly traded company out there that is still using something that started out as a recursive pr0n grabber?