Heh ;-). After asking advice from some of my fellow Monks, I've decided to leave this defacement of a productive discussion in place rather than submit a consider-for-deletion request to site editors.

The fact that it is authored Anonymously basically says it all. If there ARE people who take such a personal attack seriously when it is authored by someone too cowardly to do it under their own identity, they are people with far worse problems than little Perl programming questions to deal with, and those problems won't get fixed in this community context.

Now, back to discussing Perl.

Update:
Adding this rebuttal since Anonymous Monk continues to post provocative Off-Topic follow-ups to this thread.

    Soren A / somian / perlspinr / Intrepid

In reply to Re^4: The Evil Embedded Space by Intrepid
in thread The Evil Embedded Space by Intrepid

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