Because a novice like me can ask daft and possibly boring questions about CGI and the Template Toolkit and get useful, informative answers

Because we can all contribute where we can without being shouted down - we just get -ve points to help indicate the error of our ways

Because there aren't too many egos on display and apparently few flame wars - at least I haven't been aware of any yet.

Because it does take effort to make a decent post, whatever the actual content, which might put off those that don't read the instructions and aren't willing to learn

Because we are required to think

Because we can learn here

Because this place is about Perl