For a while now I have had an interesting debate going with a friend of mine at work about the social culture surrounding Perl. It is his belief that like many groups of people interested in similiar endeavors the Perl community consists of all types of different folks. I do not dispute that this is true although I do disagree to a certain extent. Perl after all is open source and to me that means not exactly mainstream. I have always considered the Unix/Linux world to be the "underground" or "punk rock" of the computing world in a sense that most folks are hammering away on their Windoze machines with little or no idea that something way better and free is available. I also feel that there are many like interests among us, good beer, mountain biking, snowboarding, gaming, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek etc... My friend maintains that it is all about the code and this could be one of the reasons that he is a way better coder than I, however I feel that the social aspects of the Perl Culture are also very important and helps further everyones coding endeavors all the way from the newest newbie to Merlyn himself. lemme know what you think - cheers

In reply to Perl as Culture........ by JSchmitz

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