Why are you working on this non-Perl 5/6 project? I thought you were a Perl guy!
While I have written a lot of Perl 5 code, and often still maintain it because it cannot be all reimplemented in something else overnight, Perl is not the only language I know and use. Perl is not exactly a religion that requires full devotion to its belief, and I actually met a woman who considers herself both a Christian as well as a Buddhist so…
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Why I Hate Advocacy - by Mark-Jason Dominus.