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It could just be the number of smart people here and any eager learner of Perl soon realizes that after landing here at the Monastery.

But that's probably not the real reason— I think it's the sense of community, as kiat points out. For instance, I frequent DevShed, simply because it covers more topics, but I've never felt it was a community. I credit the community at PM to things like:

the Chatterbox
home nodes
scratch pads
Monk stats
XP system
humor
monastery metaphor

(I have some other reasons here)

Bottom line—my job would be a lot harder without the monks.

—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton

In reply to Re: What's the secret of this community? by bradcathey
in thread What's the secret of this community? by kiat

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