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i cut my teeth as a coder writing perl, a language with a notoriously toxic community which i ended up witnessing from the inside for years, and which infamously shot itself in the foot when trying to design a future for it. here's a great essay about all of that www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/compute...

i spent years with the core perl people on irc, even had a job once where several of my colleagues were or had been release managers for the entire language, somewhere i have a photo of me sat next to larry wall (who created it) at a dinner during a perl conference. this essay is spot-on

fascinating how this compact summary explains the reason for a significant chunk of my life after i got online and the dotcom boom happened