Rob, buy a one-way express train ticket to hell.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:53, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:

> On 18/05/2011 22:37, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 14:25, Rob Dixon<rob.di...@gmx.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That looks fine, except that all you have printed is a hash of data. It
>>> isn't blessed and so it isn't an object.
>>>
>>> Please grow up and ask Perl questions. It looks to me as if you are as
>>> silly as each other. I certainly wouldn't employ either of you.
>>>
>>> I also wonder if you 'Kenneth Wolcott' and your friend are the same
>>> person. Since your name sounds English you embarrass me: the vast
>>> majority of Englishmen are far more professional than yourself.
>>>
>>
>> Wow.  My name is Ken Wolcott.
>>
>> I was posting in the behalf of a real colleague whom I will not share now
>> to
>> spare him this grief.
>>
>
> I doubt that your name is Ken Wolcott. Your original post said:
>
>  A colleague claims that he made no changes, code worked yesterday
>> and doesn't today.
>>
>> He is not using OO Perl.
>>
>> I have asked him for a small code snippet that reproduces the error
>> (I'm sure he is unwilling to show the entire code!).
>>
>
> And now you try to persuade us that:
>
>
>  We both work at a company which I will not share now because I do not wish
>> to harm my company by looking so foolish as to post to this list.
>>
>> He has never posted to this email list previously.  His code itself is
>> strictly non-OO even though he is calling an OO Perl module.
>>
>> We did not wish to expose the entire script to the entire world.
>>
>> I'm sorry if both of us appear so incompetent to you.
>>
>> Neither of us are experts at Perl.
>>
>
> I am not impressed by your concern for your 'friend'. Originally you
> ridiculed him; now you are concerned for 'his' reputation and that of
> your 'company'.
>
> It is clear that neither of you are proficient at Perl. But, more
> importantly, you are both unable to ask for help and be honest about
> your situation.
>
>
>  But I will probably not post here again although I will probably read the
>> posts.
>>
>
> You are always welcome to any help that we are able to offer here, but
> please look first at your character issues before you try to write
> software. We are quite happy to accept innocent failure, but as long as
> all we have is lies to work with you cannot be productive, no matter how
> hard we try.
>
>
>  Thanks for your help, although it was not very helpful.
>>
>
> You are welcome to whatever we could offer you. But it is often
> difficult to establish the true problem, even when the poster is telling
> the truth.
>
> Tell us your real name, and describe your problem. I promise we will try
> to help.
>
> Rob Dixon
>

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