I wish I could vote more than once for this post.
This is a very well-written, thoughtful, and beneficial (to everyone) post.

If anyone is interested in the experiment tilly is talking about, there is a link here :
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/newslet/soc12-99.htm
It might not be exactly the same thing, but a very interesting case study none the less. Apologies for not writing anything about Perl, but I wanted to write something about this fantastic post.

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