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by rectang 1883 days ago
> I don't think we should talk about "The Perl Community", but rather "The Perl Communities".

That's like saying that "cities" don't exist, only "neighborhoods".
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msla 1883 days ago
I take it like this:

There's no New York City community. There's no Bronx community. Both of those political units are way too big for communities to exist at that scale. It isn't diversity, although both of them are diverse, it's Dunbar's Number and the limits of the human animal. They exist in other ways, but they don't exist as communities.

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OJFord 1883 days ago
Eh? No it isn't? It's like saying 'I don't think we should take about "the US city", but rather "the US cities"'.
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rurban 1883 days ago
No, he tried to explain why only the irc and p5p perl community is toxic and disfunctional. The others are fine. There are many good perl communities.
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