"....but I will be promoting other technologies over Perl at every opportunity because of my recently gained knowledge of the kind of people who make up the Perl community, as well as for more technical reasons..."


I myself havn't coded for overly long in Perl, but even I am insulted by that. I've coded in numerous other languages, but have found those of this community to be the most helpful and supportive of any other. As well I strongly doubt you have spoken to every person in enough depth to actally make a truely un-biased decision on if we are good people or not.