Relaying for xan: I'll have you know tänzer is a lady! And a very improper one, at that. In lieu of answering a more technical inquiry, I shall iterate my re

Relaying for xan: I'll have you know tänzer is a lady! And a very improper one, at that. In lieu of answering a more technical inquiry, I shall iterate my reasoning for being so persistent in cranking out this piece of software. Quite frankly, it's on account of me becoming quite ROYALLY PISSED with dealing with Impostor Syndrome all these years; it was such to a crippling degree that only today have I bothered even considering getting a Hacker News account. I felt I was a nobody, that I could NEVER possibly belong in the pantheon of bearded programming gods and shiny, happy goddesses, so I lurked. Until this year, wherein I got a proper bonk on the head from a very lovely handful of people in the Perl community who encouraged me to make an ass of myself on stage with a talk on Filesys::POSIX (which I wrote). And I may have pooped out a blag post on Impostor Syndrome along the way, on http://xantronix.net/ http://xantronix.net/. Anyway, pursuant to the idea of utterly crushing and subsequently extinguishing Impostor Syndrome inasmuch as I possibly can with my available wherewithal, I wrote tänzer as a labor of love to myself, and as a tribute to the concept of minimalistic antiframeworks (like antimatter, but antithetical to bulky frameworks instead). So far I think I've succeeded, given that I wasn't quite ready to blast this to the world yet (at least not without some really good profiling and a quite requisite, complete testsuite), people thought it good to release this to the hordes anyway. Such is life. Consider writing software as a love letter to yourself occasionally. It's like taking a bath with candles and some real lovey-dovey music on in the background.