Re^6: Prioritizing Broken CPAN Modules

> There is mockery and sarcasm, but there is no lot of hatred

I've been so many times in situations where only mentioning Perl made me feel like a Buddhist monk in ISIS headquarter that I stopped counting.

There is some truth in your words, because the hate is nowadays often replaced by ridicule and even pity. That's even worse because Perl is not considered dead and not a competitor anymore.

Of course it's also the fault of a community which ignored changes in the ecosystem and wasn't able to address the needs of important multipliers.

But badmouthing was an important factor, because most of the criticized factors are equally true for much more successful competitors.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

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Re^7: Prioritizing Broken CPAN Modules by haj (Vicar) on Jan 04, 2020 at 10:59 UTC
I've been so many times in situations where only mentioning Perl made me feel like a Buddhist monk in ISIS headquarter that I stopped counting. Well, there seems to be a difference though: A Buddhist monk in ISIS headquarters would probably have just been able to count to one. You might be able to notice that in this world people get killed because of various sorts of hatred. It is exactly this type of exaggeration which annoys me.	[reply]
Re^8: Prioritizing Broken CPAN Modules by LanX (Saint) on Jan 04, 2020 at 16:19 UTC
Obvious metaphors are not meant to be taken literally. I also know famous members of the Perl community which lose their cool once you mention "Emacs". Same shit other colour. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]