I agree with marto. I may not have been around long enough to judge whether or not the 'community' spirit has increased or decreased - but what I can do is say that I have had nothing but pleasent and friendly interaction with most surrounding perl

Maybe post some examples, personal or subjective, to highlight the particular point in question. I'd be very interested in knowing exactly where this point of view originates...I'd hate to think anyone would associate a particular negative bias of behaviour with any given programming language, especially my beloved perl!