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<p>If you think Tye stopped coming around because I questioned the basis of his autocratic authority; you didn't know Tye very well.
<p>I miss him too. We had some quite wonderful arguments and I learned a huge amount from him.
<p>I also miss a whole raft of other monks that no longer come around, from [broquaint] on up; many of whom moved on despite my never having crossed swords with them.
<P>You and I have crossed swords -- as well as having had some positive and productive discussions -- and you're still here.
<p>I barely interact here these days not because I've lost my love of Perl(5), but because
<ul><li>it has ceased to be a tool that clients will accept for those few bits of work I still take on.
<p>A reflection of the perception, if not reality, in the wider world that Perl hasn't moved on in the last 10 years.
</li><li>this place no longer provides the ready source of intellectually challenging and stimulating problems that it once did.
<p>A reflection that very few people are using Perl for interesting work these days.
</li><li>and the continuing distaste this place has for off-topic questions means I now seek my answers elsewhere.
<p>Almost all of the questions I might ask here involve programming at some level; and many could be coerced such that I could ask them in terms of Perl code -- as I have done many times in the past -- but the best questions become muddied by their coercion into Perl programming and it limits the scope and breadth of the responses.
<p>Besides which it gets tedious to keep performing that coercion.
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<div>With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'</div>
<div>Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.</div>
<div>"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/complexity_in_it/|The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.]</div>
<div>In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
<span>[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/10/mark_shuttleworth_says_some_free_software_contributors_are_deeply_anti_social/|Suck that fhit]</span> </div>
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