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[_] Mark Chitty and his continuing influence in perl and myspace discussions

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Wed May 30 14:18:09 BST 2007

On 30/05/07, Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> wrote:
> Finally Aaron, by now I think we probably *both* appear to be just the
> arrogant twats on a mailing list looking for an argument. Not just me
> or you. We've all been here before and it's time for us to move on.
>
> I think you can probably join our little club of people who whether we
> know it or not, are the laughing stock of underscore, and filtered by
> most.
>
> Why I joined in, was because you and a bunch of other people jumped up
> and down in that pig-headed X is better than Y way, first about
> myspace and now you're doing it about Perl. The world is not black and
> white and I don't have time to argue the point and I think it's a
> little unfair to underscore to keep our terrible debating skills going
> round in circles. I don't think I've bought anything new to the
> discussion here really, and if you'd like to criticise any logical
> steps I've made someone else who cares can consider your reasoning and
> assess wether you have a good claim for perl being x,y or z. Someone
> who cares.

Noooo - don't stop! I've just pulled up a (virtual) chair. This is
great, car-crash mailing list behaviour at its best/worst (delete as
appropriate).

Have a kitten:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/05/22/no-jobs-for-kitteh/

Tim