> made life really much harder than it needed to be

If only you had read the manual...

Seriously though, of course I wasn't advocating for rudeness, and trust me, I remember how rude some people were back then in tech-related boards, this was not a unique Perl thing. I'm advocating for pointing people to the sources of information they're looking for.

> You've made my shitlist

Well then I hope it's posted somewhere I can refer to at will so that I don't have to ask you on a message board like a noob.