in reply to Were it not a monastery, my favourite metaphor for PerlMonks would have been:

A perl bookstore, because I like book stores and spend lots of time in them but most of that time isn't really productive.

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Re^2: Were it not a monastery, my favourite metaphor for PerlMonks would have been:
by blazar (Canon) on Aug 16, 2007 at 18:02 UTC

    Plus, in a bookstore it's much more difficult for them to claim that they don't have TFM handy!