Most people working with Perl have a positive attitute and are extremely helpful. So are you, thank you, but why so grumpy and negative and sometimes mean, why does your glas seem to be half empty all the time (not half full). Lighten up please, you are so nice when you are nice.

OK, what did I learn here...

There's more than one way to be helpful.

Anyway, thank you, Abigail, for being helpful.

Why does everytime Abigail say something even *slightly* negative, everyone makes a huge goddamn deal out of it? Just leave the poor guy alone, he seems to be getting along just fine without being so goddamn sappy like the rest of you.

especially as, given the context, it is infact an oblique complement to perl.