even if I were to get booted,

You wont get booted. As far as a I know nobody has been "booted" from the site. Its not that kind of place. We'll reap your nodes, silence you occasionally, -- you, criticise you, bitch, moan and wheedle. But boot you out. No I dont think so. See, the whole point is to learn, and people who get expelled from school don't learn much that is useful to them or to anybody else.

The W3 validator is often wrong

I hope you realize how strong a statement this is. Without backing it up with some solid evidence, I would have thought that whatever credibility you have is blown.

but Perl programmers who promote use strict seem more likely to be.

You seem to think that using strict is just some form of pedantic behaviour. That its only use is to satisfy some artificial concept of correctness. It's not. Strict is there to keep newbies from asking the same set of stupid questions over and over. Its to protect you from yourself when you are tired, stressed, overworked, distracted, forgetfull, and dyslexic, jittery from too much coffee and the like. Its to catch your typos and your silly oversights. It's friend use warnings is there to catch other less critical matters but for the same set of reasons. We don't advise people to use strict because we think they should, we advise them to do so because we know that no matter how good you are that you can make mistakes that the simple mechanisms of strictures and warnings will catch.

Comparing writing super-correct HTML (a language designed to be extremely fault tolerant) to using strictures, is like comparing good home decoration to not smoking in bed. The opposite of the first means a messy apartment, the opposite of the second means that eventually you will end up dead.

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