He's a public persona and was initially picked for a high-visibility position at Mozilla. While he's free to donate to whoever (or more generally, do) as he sees fit, the org is equally free to not want to be associated with that.
In the case of positions that aren't in the public eye, there's more of an argument to be made (although even there, there are lines where you can argue that a contributor doesn't align with the values of the organization depending on what the disagreements are), but if he's meant to represent the group, the expectation of privacy is different.
I tried to learn perl a few times early in my career, we still had some old perl internal sites and a bit of tooling written in it. I really struggled to find good resources on the web at the time, and most of the perl I was exposed to was so badly written as to be incomprehensible to me. I knew C and Python at the time.
I wonder how common my experience was and why the next gen (at the time) I was part of never learned it
I had the exact same experience. The Perl I encountered early in my career seemed hard to understand in way other languages weren’t. I also didn’t feel I made progress quickly trying to learn it, every time I thought I had my feet under me I’d encounter a new sigil or a new pattern and be back to having no idea what the code was doing.
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