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Reality check: You've been a registered monk here for less than a year and from your recent anti-Perl 6 posts you seem to have decided that (a) Perl 6 is not "Perl", (b) PerlMonks is only about Perl 5 and (c) your intolerant tone is acceptable behavior in a monastery. You think you're in charge of making those decisions for the rest?

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Re^5: Perl 6: From Regular Expressions to Grammars, Part 4
by Jenda (Abbot) on Mar 06, 2016 at 02:33 UTC

    I have been here since august 2001. Perl6 is most definitely not Perl, PerlMonks ought to be only about Perl 5 (to prevent confusion and Perl6 ought to BE RENAMED!) and there had been plenty of various intolerant tones well accepted in the monastery.

    Jenda
    Enoch was right!
    Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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      > there had been plenty of various intolerant tones well accepted in the monastery.

      I'm not sure what you mean. Examples?

      > PerlMonks ought to be only about Perl 5

      Perlmonks is not the Perl community, neither officially nor practically!

      It's one (out of several Perl related) boards run by volunteers based on some principles. And the community has many other disjoint subgroups which are not based on boards¹.

      Afaik none of the vocal opponents of P6 posts here has ever contributed to either perlmonks administration or to improving P5's features.

      And their goal is non sensical and apolitical because banning a part of the Perl community as OT would destroy the common base of perlmonks and their cabals.

      >  Perl6 ought to BE RENAMED!

      Which is totally off topic here, Larry holds all the rights.

      Talk to him directly (I already tried this with Damian long ago), but destroying Perlmonks won't change his opinion.

      If you (or the cabals) like P6 or not isn't relevant for Perlmonks policy.

      PM is based on TIMTOWTDI.

      That means PM will never ban Perl4 or CGI.pm or even one day Catalyst or Mojolicious or Dancer.

      Even more importantly PM will never ban threads being in favour of P5 ...

      update

      In other words you are free to start a "rename perl 6" thread, but not to troll (or any other mobbing) of P6 contributors .

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
      Je suis Charlie!

      ¹) IRC, YAPCs, mailing-lists, CPAN-authors, ...

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        Afaik none of the vocal opponents of P6 posts here has ever contributed to either perlmonks administration or to improving P5's features.

        I can think of at least one person....

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      A reply falls below the community's threshold of quality. You may see it by logging in.

      You're entitled to your opinion, but do you go around almost literally telling people to leave, as if you were in charge? I don't think you do, but do I think that's why other monks have taken offense to 1nickt's way of stating things.

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      Hi Jenda, the gods (tye Corion ... people in charge) already ruled on this a decade ago -- perl6 is welcome

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