I know that the mention of "M$" brings certain parts of the perl community to curse the day the corporation came into existance, but I had an interesting experience that I found slightly amusing.

Recently I had a problem with my Hotmail account. I tried, for a change, sending a message to tech support, thought I thought it would be useless. Strangely, they fixed my problem right away (my account would not stay connected to the server to send mail), while most of us are still waiting for replies from tech support for a problem that we had with Windows 3.1 (some of you are familiar with the lovely problem that we have with the internal clock reaching an "end").

This made me wonder if this was a one time thing, or should I start investegating. One solution is to sortof connect the dots. Hotmail. . . online mail account. . . judging by the URL once logged in, CGI. . . what is the language everyone's favorite language for using CGI? Perl :)! I realize that you can use other languages, such as C, but something tells me it is perl.

So, where am I going with this? I am glad you asked me before you downvote me, hahaha :).

Have you found Perl programmers to be more cooperative? Every language's following seems to have it's own distict personality, and Perl's seems to be that of a more helpful nature. My experience just seems to make me think :).

In reply to Are Perl programmers just easier to deal with? by CloneArmyCommander

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