On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:59 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > Discuss advocacy and popularity at the expense of building cool tools > with Perl.
Huh?!? Sorry Adam, but WTF? Who ever said that building cools tools isn't important. I would certainly agree that it is, and indeed more important. I'm saying what else can we do AS WELL! You don't like advocacy? Fine. You said so (well, sort of), and leave those of us who might alone to brainstorm and see if any new or useful ideas come up. It's our time, NOT yours. > Case in point: Yesterday, I picked up a copy of Markdown. It's really > god-awful Perl code, but it does something very important to me: convert > a plain text format into reasonable HTML. I don't care that it's not on > CPAN. I don't care that it's a hack. I want something that helps me > write quick a few little docs without starting Word, dusting off DocBook > or firing up [La]TeX. Gee whiz! Good for you! -- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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