I can confirm. I worked with Chromatic at the consultancy he mentions; I developed the Python/wx app.

He was a stand-up guy, a professional in an environment where most weren't. (It turned out that the company was already having trouble making payroll when they hired me.)

The perl dev group's focus on testing was impressive and very forward thinking. But at the same time, the Golden Hammer anti-pattern was evident to me: matching your tool to the client's problems, as opposed to placing the client's problems at the center of your focus.

I believe that my CS background helped me take that client- and problem-centered approach. And led me to create several proofs-of-concept in different languages before settling on Python/wx (largely unknown to us) as the best way to meet the project's requirements.