The title of this post at dagolden.com really struck me. The post, about a new CPAN client that doesn’t mimic the “swiss army chainsaw” mentality of the Perl community’s approach to software design, is apt in its critique not only of the project itself, but of its reception by the community. There is a religious type zeal some people express when shifting their allegiance from one idea to another that seems to compel them to attack the subject of their former allegiance.