On Tuesday 18 August 2009 13:05:55 Denny wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 20:38 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > I thought the Perl Beginners' Site - http://perl-begin.org/
> > was perfect after the last update, but boy I was wrong.
>
> ...
>
> > We hope you enjoy the new site. If you like it, please recommend it to
> > your friends - if you don't - let us know and we'll see what we can do.
>
> Hi Shlomi,
>
> I was just looking through Perl-Begin.org and I found this page:
> http://perl-begin.org/learn/get-a-job/
>
> The (mis)quote at the top of it seems like an incredibly bad idea. It
> doesn't actually illustrate the point in the following text at all, it
> just says that using Perl is 'a problem'. That doesn't seem like a good
> thing to say, imho.
Well, a few people I've talked with about it liked it, but several people like
you said that this adaptation of Zawinski's quote was not a good idea. The
quote at the top was meant as a joke and to capture people's attention, but
I'm no longer sure it delivers. We'll reconsider it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
> Regards,
> Denny
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