Faster how?

Compare, say, 30 minutes of your time to 30 seconds of 500 people's time each. Which is faster?

Besides which, why should Perl care about gaining acceptance among people who don't understand why it is being given away in the first place? A lot of the people who are giving away Perl don't mind if people producing closed software find their stuff useful, but see no reason to be helpful to that. Quite the contrary, if you want to distribute obfuscated source then that is your problem and you can do something about it if you care.

Now before you think that this is arrogant, rude, etc just remember that this is donated effort. If you feel inclined to help Perl be other than it is, you are free to do as they do and donate a working solution. (In case you didn't notice, I already gave you at least one hint for how you might do that in another post. No you wouldn't want to use that module, but the fact that it is possible might give you cause to reflect.) Unless you are willing to do that, then you don't really have much to complain about in my books...

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: seeking the root of all evil (or the sum?) by tilly
in thread seeking the root of all evil (or the sum?) by $CBAS

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