RE: I have contributed a module to CPAN

[Adam]

in reply to I have contributed a module to CPAN

I'm glad to see so many people voted for 'hopefully some day' instead of 'no'. Its good that people want to contribute.

[ddd]

There seems to be an implicit "friendliness" to perl and the perl community. I think this is a surprisingly large part of the perl mind-set. It seems to be exuded from several sources:
• humour in the docs/man pages
• the non-judgemental syntax ("There's more than 1 way to do it.")
• well-known personalities (Larry, TomC, ...)
• helpful user community (like perlmonks, and comp.lang.perl.*)
• The funny-looking camel theme
• ...
-- DouglasDD