At this point I lost patience.

This is all it took to set you off to come back with such a disrespectful and rude remark? Might I suggest some anger management classes or something? Or at very least, grow some thicker skin. Wow...

As far as the number of Perl users who use CPAN.pm, the percentage would obviously be high. One thing that's at least common among the monks is to not unnecessarily complicate things. The K.I.S.S. principal is cited many times around here.

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naChoZ

In reply to Re: A little truth by naChoZ
in thread Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl author needs encouragement to add Makefile.PL by merlyn

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