Ok... so many discussions about XP here, and people generally judge them to be annoying... so just let's use it for what it is, that is a tool: in particular, as a measuring instrument it gives me the impression that while e.g. in SoPW relatively trivial questions receive a lot of attention, in code-like sections like Code Catacombs, Cool Uses for Perl and Snippets Section posted articles do not receive just as much. This may make sense because people often come here to ask for help, and other people come here to help. But then to write and post good code is to help in advance... actually I happened to conceive this meditation when I saw an excellent code post by diotalevi, which IMHO didn't get just as much attention as one of those questions. Yet... whether one is interested in the supplied program or not, it is a very good example of good Perl programming and of interesting techniques and modules.

Granted, experienced hackers can and do post good code in reply to questions too. Yet I wonder

• if I am the only one to see a bias;
• if others share my concern, that is the belief that it should be "corrected";
• how this could be done.

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