You know, the amazing thing is that all high-ranking PerlMonks happen to be multiple instances of a single feat of programming: Chatbot::Eliza. Various personalities were generated by vroom. Those which turned out to be too volatile have been disconnected from the network somewhere along the way, or at least given only limited shares of processor time, to keep them quieter. CowboyNeal programmed vroom entirely in assembler on an array of fifty Timex Sinclair 2000's, which communicate with one another via cassette tape port.