Hi,
Peter Scott wrote:
I respect the desire for this thread to die and won't post any more.
Since you cc'ed me I don't want to ignore this one though.
Yes, I know the dilemma of "let it die" or "would I be seen as ignoring a
point". I've purposely dropped you as a CC for this reason...
maintainable. I cannot tell you how often someone says to me, "Hey, I've
been using this Perl script I got from someone else for a while, but it
doesn't make sense to me, either Perl is stupid or I am" and I look at it
and find pages of horrible dreck that can be replaced with a dozen lines
that are clear to this person. There is more at stake than results.
I agree. But, what I was saying all along wasn't about this and we've drifted
due to the length of this thread...
What I said was that if someone who is not as well-versed in Perl as yourself
wants to help out, what is wrong with that? And if their intention is good and
they state they are not an expert, isn't it somewhat trivial to complain that
they didn't say "I think" instead of "I'm not an expert, but..."?!? This is
what it was about and not the other issues that entered afterwards...
I understand that people like yourself have a bigger stake in the public
perception of Perl than (say) me. But it isn't like I don't care; Perl's
popularity means I don't have to learn another language... :-)
IMHO, equal doses of correct Perl code and minimizing the level of mailing list
policing :-) here can only help Perl. Non-experts (like myself) simply want to
give back to the list what we've taken countless times. Before this last
statement leads to even more discussion...the original reply from Ian was (a)
correct and (b) when the question changed, he followed-up. So Uri's comment to
Ian was based on Ian being honest and admitting he wasn't an expert?
Ray
PS: My "stake" in this thread (and why it has dragged on for so long) is that
what happened to Ian, could have happened to me here. And my instinct for all
the time I've been on this list is to try to give back what I can, when I can.
To me, it's like "top-posting is bad"...just something I thought without having
googled for it or conducted a survey on. :-) But, if this belief of mine is
wrong...then I'd like to know...
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