My memories of the 90s were that Perl programmers were helpful and got things done, whereas if you asked a Lisp user anything they would tell you 1. you were wrong 2. everyone else is also wrong 3. you need to study another five years before doing anything, or sometimes 4. you should kill yourself.

Hopefully now that we live in the world of the future we can use him as an example of how not to write mailing list posts.

(There were one or two angry Europeans on the ffmpeg list who got things done, but the behavior and getting things done were both seemingly caused by having lots of free time since they were unemployable…)