If you read a few of his other posts, he's actually quite impressed by perl and the perl community. Some of his essays kept me quite amused during my after lunch sleepy time.

Update: I read again his opinion on things like the ".." operator. The first time I read about that thing, I thought the designer was demented. 9 years of perl later... I'm sure of it

Do you mean instead of responding with a cogent argument, I engaged in an Ad Hominem attack?
Hmmmm... I'll have to think about that :)

BTW I have never promised my posts would be sober, serious analysis.



grep

One dead unjugged rabbit fish later