in reply to perldoc deleted modules

Basically, Dave Rolsky (a.k.a. "autarch") had an agenda, and pushed it until others got tired of arguing, so the existing documentation was removed, and replaced by some stuff he wrote. Sad, really.

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Re^2: perldoc deleted modules
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2013 at 03:43 UTC

    Basically, Dave Rolsky (a.k.a. "autarch") had an agenda, and pushed it until others got tired of arguing, so the existing documentation was removed, and replaced by some stuff he wrote. Sad, really.

    funny that, isn't that how everything works?

      funny that, isn't that how everything works?
      Pretty much. Life is politics, which is just a polite form of war, in which winning is the only thing that matters. That doesn't make it suck less, Anonymous Coward.