Firstly: do you think this is particularly patronizing? I don't think that discussing burn-out and how people come across in that state is so. Secondly: the GP

Firstly: do you think this is particularly patronizing? I don't think that discussing burn-out and how people come across in that state is so. Secondly: the GP is, by any reasonable standard, pretty dang patronizing in and of itself. Stuff like: >> You will not need a magnifying glass to read a mish-mash of ASCII math symbols to figure out whether someone built a death ray, or just a milk shaker. Is that elevating the discourse? I think the reason folks are willing to overlook this is because they think it's socially acceptable to hurl insults when they dislike the flavor of the syntax rather than actually offering concrete complaints. Folks in the various responses have mocked perk, its users, and diagnosed the author with various illnesses. > or maybe in how you've said it. I don't have much of a stake in Perl 6. I think it's interesting. What I am invested in is reminding folks that good notations require investment of time to read. That's the case for every other applied science, but because of the pervasive scorn directed by the world at computer science, folks view any effort put into programming as wasted. I'm not trying to give you a reason to use Perl 6, so there is no surprise you didn't find it. I'm trying to reflect back these learned behaviors and show how arbitrary and thoughtless they are.