None of which precludes the possibility that all of these people stumbled onto this blog over a span or several *YEARS*, and posted comments, entirely independent of perlmonks -- anyone can comment on that blog, you don't even need to create an account, or have a verified email address, and it's the #1 result when googling for "perl pthon ruby" so it seems likely people might have found it, commented on it, and forgotten about it *YEARS* later.

I personally believe that as astonishing as it may be, given how often do I boast about my good memory, that must be the explanation. If so, then I apologize for the noise... yet, quite unexpectedly, this very thread seems to be an appreciated one!

Given that I regularly follow clpmisc, I also searched it for say mjtsai.com in case someone had posted the link there, but that doesn't seem to be the case either...