I believe that this list is a good place to find good advice about how
to write Perl well. 'beginners' is a misnomer, but our task is to advise
properly or to redirect the question.
At the end of this post is a copy of a mail that Casey West sent to me
privately, but the 'Ten Years of Considerate Help' thread.
Perl is public property. Mock it as you would mock colour and you would
be wrong. Love it as you would love your next-door neighbour amd you
would still be wrong.
Please write programs. It's like finger painting - it makes things
happen and then go again :)
Casey has said this to me. I think he needs to get over himself. What do
you say?
On 30/05/2011 01:31, Casey West wrote:
After more than half a decade of being away from the list, the community
has failed to moderate itself. Instead, people still seem compelled to
come to me for assistance on the list. Reluctantly, and with very little
time and enthusiasm, I'm doing the job of the community for the
community. Open source and open communities are all about being able to
self heal when members drop away for whatever reason.
Why, then, has the beginners list been incapable of finding its own
suitable list of moderators in my long-standing absence? It's baffling,
frankly.
A beginners list moderator has no particular enhanced abilities. There
are no explicitly available capabilities at my disposal. I cannot, for
example, remove someone from the list. Nor can I enforce anything. I
still have to ask the perl.org <http://perl.org> admins (Ask and Robert)
for anything I'd require in particular. Same goes for _everyone else on
the list_.
My behavior is easy to explain. I don't have a driving proclivity to
father grown men and women acting worse than my own young children.
Your thoughts?
- Casey
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