On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 01:57 , Chas Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:45, Timothy Johnson wrote:
>>
>> "I also find that it's only more confusing to be sesquipedalian in
>> response to posts that only need a simple, clear answer."
>>
>> Sesquipedalian is a pretty big word. :)
>
> Come on now, we need to eschew obfuscation.
merely being obsequious is not going to get this thread
back on track - and David Grey did raise a reasonable point -
with the absolutely delicious irony - that having to source
a network document to make clear what is common parlance in
the civilized world is a part of what we are trying to get
across to the beginning perlers.....
Given that we are also seeing more persons, for whom english
is not their first language - and the americans as well - there
needs to be a balance between:
"show the code"
and
"explain the code in english" - not american.
I think we have heard from a few of the professional writers
about books - and we may wish to take a bit of a queue from
Grey's concern about 'using common parlance' - as it is read
in the vulgae, rather than merely the lingua franca of perlese.
ciao
drieux
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