I agree with reaping posts that are not Perl related. I do not agree with my pure-perl work being taken down (I can still access the node, but it's not visible as an entry in Poetry). It's not like I went and tried to post this in Craft or Meditations or something. I happen to be very disturbed about the proceedings in Iraq in light of the strongarm slippery-slope the States is getting into, and I wrote a poem about it, in syntactically correct, completely compiler-friendly Perl code. It doesn't matter if you agree with the content or not. It's poetry. It's allowed to be controversial. Mark me down in reputation all you want, I really don't care. But stick to reaping the flames, not the kindling. If it's not back up soon then the people refusing to re-post it should kick themselves out of the Perl culture and go program exclusively in Java or something that doesn't purportedly advocate TMTOWTDI.

In reply to My latest poem, UnitedStates::agenda by clairudjinn

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