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The lede says Perl died because it was "reactionary" and "culturally conservative", but the content says Perl died because it had bad culture, the culture of an
by getnormality 10mo ago
The lede says Perl died because it was "reactionary" and "culturally conservative", but the content says Perl died because it had bad culture, the culture of angry, socially corrosive anonymous internet commenters.
If Perl had had a good culture, then conserving it would have been good!
- Juliate 10mo agoA good culture, as time goes, is not reactionary and conservative, if only because it opens itself to the contribution of the younger generations.
- writtiewrat 10mo ago[flagged]
- themafia 10mo agoThat was effectively the culture of the Internet in general at that time. It was the "wild west" for years, because, well, it _was_ a modern incarnation of the same phenomenon.