Re: poll ideas quest 2007

[thezip]

in reply to poll ideas quest 2007

If I were a Superhero, my superhero power would be:

• X-ray Vision, and I'd use it to see all the things that I usually don't get to see
• Telepathy (mind-reading), and I'd read other peoples' minds so that I could always manage to do the right thing
• Flying, and I'd fly across the universe to see all the really cool stuff
• Animal Empathy, and I'd responsibly lead a vast army of animals to maintain world order

Now for the hard part... (un)fortunately, your superpower must be inextricably linked to one of your dominant personality traits.

In my case, my superpower is called "Over-Analysis", as I am doomed to slowness of action, but I eventually do the right thing in a couple of weeks...

What would your superpower be?

[blazar]

What would your superpower be?

• Writing programs with no syntax and runtime errors whatsoever, whatever their length

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• super-lazyness
• super-impatience
• super-hubris

[ambrus]

Now for the hard part... (un)fortunately, your superpower must be inextricably linked to one of your dominant personality traits.

You can't give extra conditions like that in a perlmonks poll.

Update 2008 sep 6: turns out this is wrong, see Re: Shat flames guy (Was: poll ideas quest 2007).

[thezip]

Wow ambrus, you sounded *just* like Mr. InflexiMan right then!

[dhoss]

<borat>but why not?</borat>

[planetscape]

Actually, we could do something like we did in If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:...