...certain people will attack you blindly and hatefully after awhile even if you are correct

Really? Care to provide examples? I have not seen blind or hateful attacks against you. I have seen many people point out that you fail to understand some basic points about Perl. This, combined with your assumption that this failure is somehow Perl's fault, really annoys some people. Despite this annoyance, Monks have taken the time to answer your questions -- often at length -- and yet you repeatedly seem to "not get it."

I read your last post and you were complaining about the length function not being intuitive. One point you made was

it may be best for a trained Perl programmer, but think from the mind of your boss or your secretary or someone else who just wants something simple and fast ...

Well, duh! Generally, I have not worked in evironments where the secretary is programming. On the other hand, if my boss is programming, I want him or her to know how to cook or stay out of the kitchen. It's non-sensical comments like this which get you downvoted, princepawn, not monks acting out of "blind hatred."

I also find it interesting that in this node, you respond as metaperl to one of your own posts without cluing people in to who you are and with a reference to a programming language "whose stated intent is to replace Perl." If you don't like Perl, don't use it. It's that simple. There's nothing wrong with not liking Perl, but don't keep coming back to Perl programmers and telling them that there language is broken (unless you're right).

Cheers,
Ovid

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