The Damian was a phenomenon of pure inspiration. In fact Perl community in general had a pantheon of acolytes I've never seen in any other programming community

The Damian was a phenomenon of pure inspiration. In fact Perl community in general had a pantheon of acolytes I've never seen in any other programming community. Ruby has a few but nowhere near as many as Perl. Perl in the early 2000s really was on fire.