>>>>> "R" == R Joseph Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R> Hi Randal, R> I must take issue with you here. And therefore, you misunderstood my purpose. You have not *seen* the amount of cargo-cult c**p that I've seen in advising people about Perl over 13 years. Maybe it's interesting to know how it works underneath. The source code to the concise way of doing it is readily available. But when the long way to do it is offered as "the solution", I must take issue. That c**p code will be built-on, wasting the time and energy of many people reinventing the wheel needlessly -- those who just want to get that job done... not learn the stuff underneath it. Using your argument, we shouldn't even code in Perl. Make them use C, or assembler. Then they'll *really* know how it works. No, not me. Sometimes, getting the task done by leveraging off of the work of others is the *right* thing. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
