-BrowserUk: ...
-Camerlengo: "BrowserUk!"
-BrowserUk: ...
-Camerlengo: "BrowserUk!"
-BrowserUk: ...
-Camerlengo: Vere Papa mortuus est
The above is the cerimony that happens when a pope dies. I put this to add a bit of fun in a not fun at all situation.
BrowserUk left the monastery definitevely erasing all his contributions(*): this is a big loss for me and the whole perl community.
He was known as a very smart programmer, with a vaste background and experience in various fields. He was one of the best I saw in parallel perl programming, a C expert, very good in creating algorithms, looking toward efficiency and quality, always with a scientific approach.
By other hand he was not such a "leg of a saint" as we in Eataly say to describe, ironically, someone that is not a saint at all. He was irascibile a with a "hot blood", easy to be provoked, sometimes rude, also very rude and also toward monks and nuns who not deserved rudeness at all.
A fistufull of us (yes of us! We are a community so I'm not going to say: " a fistufull of you ") took the habit to highligth his caracterial edges instead of smooting them or, even better, ignoring them. I'm not saying we are expected to be psychological support community (the word is a bit strong but you understood what I mean) nor that we killed the pope. Maybe this was already his intention.
What I'm saying is that I beg you all, we all, for the future to try to suck the best from each others not the worst. I'm a terrible guy if I want (ask to my wife.. ;) but I try to do my best for you, daily and if I feel my hands itching I go away for ten minutes or more until I'm in a better disposition.
If Mozart was an asshole, what to do? "Please Wolfy play for me" or "Damn asshole, psychopathic go to hell!" I have no doubts here, nor you I hope. Most of the times the situation is more shaded but our beahviour will make the difference.
This is my view of a community. We have to share our best part not the worst one. When someone irritate you you must repeat what Virgilio told to Dante, as a mantra: Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa
One part of myself is seriously angry today: I've lost a lot of good software examples in fields where I still need a lot of practice. I suffered this damage only due to misfortune? Or someone of us has a part, if little, in this?
Hoping this is the last of this kind of death i beg you to consider how to act here, a sancta sanctorum of perl coders.
My best wishes to you all.
L*
PS as noted by haukex contributions are not (at least not completely) removed. The above does not change very much. Anyway we will loose future contributions.
*L
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.