> 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 :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

In reply to Re^6: Prioritizing Broken CPAN Modules by LanX
in thread Prioritizing Broken CPAN Modules by thechartist

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