in reply to Re^8: The Future of Perl 5
in thread The Future of Perl 5

Wendy, you and Liz are very active and public members of the Perl community.

Liz published dozens of modules, you two are practically at every conference or workshop and co-sponsoring events.

BrowserUK OTOH is practically anonymous. Nobody here knows who he is, if he ever released modules, blogged or attended conferences.

He probably prefers to stay anonymous, because an notable percentage of his contributions here are emotional outbursts and personal attacks using foul language. But his "real life" reputation can't be damaged, unlike yours.

He is though somehow respected for the huge number remaining technical postings, especially in the field of tuning Perl for speed. Resulting in a high XP-rating. (his Dr Jekyll side if you want)

But most of the regulars stopped going into lengthy fights with Mr Hyde.

I'm telling you this because you weren't that active here in the past.

So better think twice who you are feeding instead of relaxing (and enjoying your whiskey. ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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Re^10: The Future of Perl 5
by woolfy (Chaplain) on Aug 30, 2018 at 14:05 UTC
    LanX, thank for your kind words. The words towards BrowserUK are quite harsh and I am not sure I agree. I have often ++ their posts, because of the technical skills and the enormous help to other people (and I still ++ their posts when it comes to technical help to others).

    When it comes to Perl 5, I still often direct people to PerlMonks when they have technical questions, need help with a project, or to learn things, because PerlMonks is an awesome place to read and learn, to write and educate, to meditate, and sometimes to have fun. My reactions this year are not so much "feeding" the persons I react to, but more aimed at other people who might not know the other side. The other side is that many people and many companies still use Perl, that new projects are still started, and that the image of Perl has been changing for the better in the past 5 years. If I don't mention such things, who would? There are not that many other people who do.

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      I was mainly reacting on Re^9: The Future of Perl 5.

      In general I'd prefer a less emotional discussion.

      I'm not an angel if it comes to provocation, but all the vitriol from both "sides"° is starting to frustrate me.

      and I don't want others to get more frustrated.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

      °) Truth is there are too many sides. Some want Perl to be more like Python...

      ... other more like C or Smalltalk or Ruby or Go or Lisp ...

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        Sorry. I was very emotional and frustrated. Won't happen again. I hope I can keep that promise.
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        OK
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