I just found out, that the Perl community is a bunch of lethargic
old-farts who deserve no better than "their language" to persish. ...
Hmm. No that would not make a good motivational entry. I will have to
reformulate this in a more euphemistic fashion while keeping the
meaning untouched.

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Welcome to the world of the real ;-)
unfortunately I've had that opinion for a while, and it's very hard
to get anyone to do anything seriously positive, in part because of
all the brown-nosing in the [despite anonymous quote this has to be
censored]... People like Gabor (and you) still try to make a
difference, but it's like pushing water uphill.