How Perl Got a Manager Programming Again

1. I've always thought of myself as a programmer
2. But my career moved away from programming
3. How bad did it get?
4. Perl turned that around
5. So how did Perl do it?
6. Language: Perl is just plain fun
7. Language: Perl is aesthetically pleasing
8. Culture: TMTOWTDI
9. Taking it too far
10. Community: CPAN
11. Community: Documentation
12. Community: TPJ
13. Community: TPC