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		phamilton on Nov 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believ... I don't know if there's a place less friendly than #perl on freenode I'm pretty sure 90% of the questions I ever asked there were answered with "CPAN is a thing" or "Why would you even want to do that?". Rarely would anyone answer my actual question.

bmn__ on Nov 11, 2019 | [–]

Use irc.perl.org #perl-help instead. See <http://www.irc.perl.org/rules.html#Community%20Policies>.

aidenn0 on Nov 11, 2019 | [–]

##c is easily the most pedantic chat forum I've ever visited. It's also the only place I've seen someone use a diaeresis in chat.

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