In your opinion you say

and the reviews here trashing it do not take that into account.

What reviews? I couldn't find any.

update: Did you write this? Your "Opinion of reader" is the same as Reviewer: Some Guy from Where Carmen Sandiego Is, are you him?

update: Upon further examination, it appears that you don't know what constitutes Plagiarism (Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It). You only wrote the 1st paragraph.

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.