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Charlton Wilbur
MD> I followed-up on this problem by e-mail and your first guess
MD> is close to what happened. [...]
MD> It's quite possible Cloink will never return to clpmisc; it's
MD> almost certain that Ian won't be back... but mostly because
MD> Ian doesn't use perl in any case. His remark about perl being
MD> "niche" simply confirmed his prejudice against perl based on
MD> what happened to Cloink's question. Remarks that Ian's
MD> departure will improve the newsgroup have missed the point.
Dear $deity, don't you have anything better to do with your time?
Charlton
MD> is close to what happened. [...]
MD> It's quite possible Cloink will never return to clpmisc; it's
MD> almost certain that Ian won't be back... but mostly because
MD> Ian doesn't use perl in any case. His remark about perl being
MD> "niche" simply confirmed his prejudice against perl based on
MD> what happened to Cloink's question. Remarks that Ian's
MD> departure will improve the newsgroup have missed the point.
Dear $deity, don't you have anything better to do with your time?
Charlton