The Perl community has always had a core group of arrogant jerks bickering with each other and blasting users they considered beneath their status. When MacOS

The Perl community has always had a core group of arrogant jerks bickering with each other and blasting users they considered beneath their status. When MacOS X was first released I asked a question about that on the MacPerl list and was told to "fuck off" because my question was "off topic". I ended up requesting a new mailing list for MacOS X be created and it was. For the first year or two it grew very fast and it was a pleasure to be a part of it, but then some of the Perl "elite" started joining it. Randal Schwartz was among those who did and he was a complete jerk. He started trashing members on that list who'd been there helping others, including me. There were even developers who worked for Apple there, and Randal trashed them too. I finally told Randal to "fuck off" and to my surprise there were a lot of members who stood up with me, and off Randal did fuck. It wasn't too long afterwards Randal screwed himself but good with his own arrogance. It was around 2006 that I started using prototype.js to handle a lot of the things I was doing with Perl and not long after I unsubscribed from all the Perl mailing list I'd been on. Nowadays all those Perl mailing lists are pretty much silent and I'm pretty sure the MacOS X perl list is dead. I still admire Larry Wall though. He stayed far above that bullshit and remained friendly and humble when Perl was at it's pinnacle back around 2000-2005 and .cgi scripts were pretty much the backbone of web work.