I trust the diligence and competency of the p5p over a single author who's nature is attack-if-questioned, any day.

WRT technical issues, I don't care much about attitude, lack of education or social skills or political correctness. Nonwithstanding the linked blog post being vitriolic, I'd rather want to see the points raised therein disproved. And I'd really like seeing Abigail-II back here, which isn't going to happen, and neither tchrist nor TimToady. Sigh.

I'd rather want to see the points raised therein disproved.

Which ones? "p5p are ignorant and incompetent and have been destroying Perl since 2000" isn't a point that can be proven or disproven. On a similar-but-not-the-same note, "Allowing nulls in symbol names in Perl is a security hole, no one is smart enough to see it, take my word for it, I won't show you any working exploit code" isn't a point that can be discussed.

Which points do you see suitable for discussion?

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

I guess I have seen occasional relatively recent remarks from Abigail once in a while when I've stumbled into a P5P thread archive, but as far as I can tell tchrist spends his time nitpicking over grammar and etymology at S/O, while timtoady spends his time doing promotion of his new language and resting on his laurels at YAPCs. Like a lot of things about which I have nostalgia, what I miss no longer exists to be gone back to.



The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

That's not describing him in any way. He's actually a very nice guy.

Ask others who met him personally.