Essentially Tom was both knowledgeable and abrasive to an extreme. Technically he was brilliant and a valued asset. But socially he was a center of conflict. An

Essentially Tom was both knowledgeable and abrasive to an extreme. Technically he was brilliant and a valued asset. But socially he was a center of conflict. And the result was that Perl 5 development ground to a halt and other people left. I don't know everything that Larry did about the situation. But it was a situation that everyone on p5p was painfully aware of at the time.