The introduction you got to PerlMonks wasn't exactly a gentle one, so personally I'd like to congratulate you on joining it nevertheless. Many wouldn't want to have anything to do with it after an incident like this so courage and integrity was needed on your part.

PerlMonks is a nice and useful community with a lot of very devoted members. Juerd is one of them but you'll meet many others. Each has his own style of communicating and that's something we all have to expect and (to a certain extent at least ;-) accept.

I hope you'll have a lot of opportunities to learn as well as to teach, since IMHO each of us, whatever level we've reached in the PerlMonks hierarchy still has a lot to learn (not necessarily just about Perl). In that sense we're all just initiates whatever the number of XPs we've obtained over time.

So I'd like to welcome you to the monastry and I hope to see a lot of interesting contributions from you. Fixing Handy::Dandy might be a good start ;-p

Two more things to add:

1. I'm speaking only for myself, not in anyone else's name.
2. I strongly believe that people are more important than Perl or CPAN.

Just my 2 cents, -gjb-