On Sunday 06 Dec 2009 13:10:58 Erez Schatz wrote: > 2009/12/6 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il>: > > Hi Agnello! > > > > That put aside, you really should work on writing your English text > > better. While one can understand it, the style (punctuation, > > capitalisation, spelling, etc.) is horrible. > > Not as horrible as the tone of this comment. In Perl we accept that > different level of programmers "speak" in different dialects of Perl. > I suggest you apply the same criteria to people who are native to > other languages than English. >
I'm sorry if I sounded bad and I apologise for that. I agree that people are allowed to speak and write in sub-optimal or not perfectly native English. However, Agnello's text had many anti-patterns that illustrated that they (he?) didn't take the time to write it properly: 1. It lacked all capitalisation - including many lowercase i's instead of "I"'s. 2. It used many "ellipses" (dot-dot-dot - "...") and two dots - ".." instead of full stops - ".". 3. It wasn't separated into paragraphs where appropriate. 4. The punctuation was random and erratic. Such proper negligence is unacceptable in any language, regardless of your level. People who read this would be more tempted (both consciously and sub- consciously) to dismiss the writer as an idiot, and would be more inclined not to take them seriously. I realise that there's what chromatic calls Baby Perl: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/03/turning-baby-perl-into-grownup- perl.html (short URL - http://xrl.us/bgfks2 ). However, this is bad English writing with some conscious mistakes that should and can be avoided. I apologise about the tone, but sloppy writing usually indicates sloppy programming: * http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html * http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4 * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/817 Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
