[Ultimatt]

Only if you're the kind of moron that would do it to begin with. At no point is anyone saying you should use weird quoting in comments at all. The parsed comments are used to populate dynamic documentation related to functions and classes that you can inspect at runtime. What's so bad about that?

[raiph]

Hi Ultimatt,

I was saddened when I saw that someone who loves Perl 6 used the word 'moron'. It is "closely tied with the American eugenics movement" according to wikipedia and is a deprecated diagnostic categorization of someone having a mental age of 8-12 years old -- an audience we supposedly wish to attract, not repel.

I'm not at all meaning any moral judgement. I've used such words myself in the past in much more terrible and significant ways. I'm just feeling low about how unkind we can sometimes be to others and sad to see these few opportunities on HN to discuss Perl 6 ending up sidetracked not only by what might be called trolling but also by seeing P6ers (including me sometimes) making things worse.

I thank you for and want to help sustain your passion about the technical aspects of Perl 6. I'm also hoping to encourage more compassionate ways of connecting with all folk, including trolls, and to being passionate about that too.

And a merry new year to all. :)

[lmm]

All insults have a similar history - "idiot" is the same kind of thing, just from a little further back in history.