I see where you're coming from finding the perlish string formatting weird, I guess I barely even notice that part and was assuming incorrectly it would be ever

I see where you're coming from finding the perlish string formatting weird, I guess I barely even notice that part and was assuming incorrectly it would be everything else about the perl that would bother people. So I guess that while you perhaps did have suboptimal judgement in your initial reply you very much weren't alone and I should remember to be more careful about that going forwards.