I thought Meditations was perfect placement for this highly relevant article. I don't have the opportunity to 'troll' other sites. I do have time to keep up to date with the latest here and that's about it. (Usually between compiles/code migrations).

To highlight the relevancy of articles such as this I can point to my RL expirience of utilizing thoughts and opinion about Open Source that I aquired from Perlmonks and applying them on my job. After two years of relentless advocacy Perl can/is installed on our production servers.

If it weren't for the posting's that point to relevant external Open Source/Perl links I would miss out on quite a bit of valuable information. More importantly the discussions of such articles by fellow monks has been of more value to me than the articles themselves. I understand other monks motivations and intentions far better as I have access to thier other posts and have been an avid reader of theirs for a couple of years now.

To say that there is absolutely no room for anything but pure Perl posts is to dismiss one of the greatest qualities of this site. That being access to others that share my view that Perl and the people in its culture are for some silly reason important to myself. Opinions and meditations on things that influence them and their mindset are of unique value and deserve a place to be expressed.

This is not to say that I think everything you folks think is of value, but Meditations does provide a small diversion from the use strict; requirements of the other available topics, and has always been regarded as such.

coreolyn lastnode_id=1072 how small is your homenode?

In reply to Re: Posting Unrelated News Items by coreolyn
in thread Posting Unrelated News Items by FoxtrotUniform

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