Well allow me to retort, Some of my comments are inline, in bold where required.

"All languages are invented languages!" You're missing the point. Read the book if you care to find out why. It's fun.

I get it... I really do. Besides, as I've pointed out what I've made is not a language per-se, it's just an extension to Perl to make it understand a flexible and extendible syntax which is entirely programmer defined by choosing their own abstractions and what those abstractions mean/do.



"After 4 + years of playing with the system I've created, I can tell you it's stable, reliable, easy to use, and highly tolerant of faults and bad coding in the document layer. The only caveat is that it's not fast enough, which is why I asked for help to speed it up in the first place!" I believe you were give advice on how to address the performance issues with your code.

Yes some, a couple of points addressed taking out certain things like $&, which I only put in to make the code more "perlish" to satisfy the nitpickers that I can write "real" perl, and some other points which were really useful and I'm working on in the re-write.



"There is plenty of base for legal action! citation needed

How about this citation :Right to be forgotton

It appears the law makers have already noticed the problem and are working to solve it and prevent people like the owners of this site abusing their power like this in the future. The law may not be passed yet, but it is already confirmed lawful and legit, and therefore ignoring it and carrying on regardless just because it hasn't been fully passed and made enforceable yet is still a CRIME imho. Legislation always lags behind reality and real problems, so the TPTB on this site can play their game a little longer, but at the end of the day, the illegality of the setup is already plain and obvious to anyone who has fallen victim to it.



You should have read How can I wipe every trace of myself from PerlMonks?, via PerlMonks FAQ, which is linked to on Create A New User.

Guess where the above citation came from!



The alternative is not to behave in a way in which you are ashamed to the point where you'd want to delete everything you'd ever written in order to save face.

I didn't come here looking for an argument, it found me and my willingness to fight fire with fire instead of behaving like a meek little punchbag has what has brought us here. 4 years ago I was meek and easy to push around, but not now, I will argue with anyone until the cows come home because I have the benefit of those extra years of study and detailed experiments.



Always read the contract, front and back.

I would consider that sound advice in any situation, however I did not expect there to be any such situation here of all places. I don't start arguments or fights, and given a chance I will always back off, but this site has me trapped unable to back off and unable to proceed because everytime I try to explain with code it gets reaped because it's "worthless, without merit" etc etc. This situation is intolerable!



If you have "4 +" years of experience I don't consider you a "noob". However no "noob" bashing occurred. You agreed when signing up to the house rules. Like most people you probably didn't read them. You've yet to point out a single law which covers this so called injustice.

Plenty of bashing went on, primarily focussed around using concepts from degree level computer science which I am not familiar with to make arguments which when I looked into them turned out to a be a load of high-faluting intelligent sounding waffle.



"Back on the subject of advice being received, just because I don't instantly understand or agree with what someone is saying doesn't mean I'm ignorant or stupid." Agreed, but nobody here said you were stupid because you didn't instantly understand or agree with what someone else was saying.

I've been called; stupid, delusional, arrogant, insane, a troll, a tiny little man shaking his fist at the site, alsorts. This place has been nothing but a nightmare from the word go and all because I'm not interested in the mainstream world of Perl which frankly bores me as much as COBOL used to, and instead I have my own ideas and my own direction which I want to go in which is not "kosher" and recognized/respected by the people on this site.

Fair enough I say, you don't like the way I do things or what I have in mind that's fine... just delete my content and let me go. What is so difficult about that?



Well the problem with performance seems to relate to how you want to do things, which we've already touched on.

No.... the problem with performance is entirely down to the way in which the current implementation does its work, that way is not the only way and I have been seeking (with some successes and some failures) a better way to do the same thing for like 4 years now. The last couple of weeks and the tiny nuggets of great information in the mountain of crap that has been thrown at me have been a great help.



None of this is new. Over the years I've seen users come and go. For certain people for whatever reason, this place doesn't seem to work for. Often it's a problem to do with communication.

Absolutely it's about communication, and the dehumanising interface which completely removes all body language and tone, leaving nothing but an apparently idiotic and contemptable bunch of crap coming out of the reality of an intelligent and nice guy sat here typing who you would probably really like if we met in a pub. Also, if we actually were face to face I could easily and quickly show you what excites me about the system I've built and why I'm fighting so hard to hold onto and improve it.



I remember telling someone how to compile Perl for source, but to a user defined path, and pointed them towards the README file which comes with the source. Sadly this was after they'd destroyed their system by overwriting the system Perl.

Oops! I've done that once... nasty had to reinstall the whole damn server O/S to get it working again.



Their response was "Either you're calling me an idiot, or it's not in there (the README) because I read it already". I provided links proving it was in the README file for a few years of Perl releases, initially they refused to "believe" me. The same person argued in the CB for literally a month about packaging modules for CPAN. They couldn't or wouldn't understand what anyone told them. It went on like this until someone, popped in and simply said "Think of CPAN as dumb storage", and the penny dropped. It was all in the phrasing and finality of the response.

Some people are like that, but I'm not one of them! I just don't give in easily when people are telling me things that I know are false, regardless of whether or not I am capable of explaining to them exactly why they are wrong and how I know that to be the case. Same as arguing with creationists...



At no point am I claiming the user in question is "an idiot" as you say. Like you they were passionate about what they wanted to do. Like the language creators in the book I referenced, they drove away people who tried to help them.

I'm not trying to drive anyone away, nor am I trying to attract anyone, I'm just putting up what I have right now, what I understand and trying to make the best of the bits and bobs that come back from it. If someone threw some info at me that was utterly brilliant but I didn't get it then it's not my fault that I'm not ready for that info yet there is no need to go at me about it the pieces will fit together when they are ready. One guy who happens to be one of the higher rankers around here said that I was "so dumb" because I didn't agree with something he said... oh like he's so smart he can just throw ad-homs like that? Pffft... I'm not impressed.

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