A Perl Wizard...

Is on a first-name basis with Larry's wife.
Has written or rewritten major subsystems of the Perl compiler or interpreter.
Is thinking about rewriting the regex engine, the memory allocator, or the garbage collector.
Doesn't write games in Perl because they realize that Perl is the game.

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