That's all well and fine except for those of us who do not use nor have
no interest in using Perl/CGI/JavaScript.
In addition to, many of us are participants in numerous lists groups
(yes, the Geek Factor)and may not want to develop an injury from
deleting all the extraneous messages that have absolutely no bearing
the list for which it is posted. This list especially has the "Off-
Topic" problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:55 am
Subject: Re: a little offtopic
> I appologize to the 4500+ people that I caused undue effort in
> hitting their delete
> button.
>
> As for PERL questions getting me banned from the list, I wonder,
> aren't we all in the
> same industry here? Lets face it, all languages have different
> addvantages and
> disadvantages, that's why there are so many of them. Also, at one
> time or another we
> will all have to deal with languages we don't know.
>
> Now, I thought that this was a list of programmers, designers, and
> other engineers of
> internet and network applications. Hence, I figured that it would
> be a logical place to
> ask the occassional non-JSP question (If it's all the same, I
> already get up to 300
> messages a day from this list and the servlet list, I don't care
> to add another couple
> of hundred adding myself to more lists). Also, I can't help but
> notice the amount of
> HTML questions that keep popping up in my inbox either from this
> list or the servlet
> one. If you have some grievance with my email, hit delete. I
> won't take offense, I
> promise.
>
> -Daniel
>
> "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> > Daniel Lynn wrote:
> >
> > > OK, I know this is off-topic, but it's a bit of a pain to go
> log onto
> > > other lists and stuff for a question I only have to deal with
> once, so
> > > please bear with me.. Does anyone out there know perl and know
> what this
> > > line of code means?
> > >
> > > if (-e $datafile) {} else { open (DATA, "<<$datafile") ||
> > > ShowErrMessage("Blah"); }
> > >
> > > I have a ecommerce program that I'm having problems with and we've
> > > narrowed the problem down to this line. I don't really
> understand what
> > > the -e is or the open statement... Thanks to anyone that
> knows and once
> > > again, sorry for the off-topic question.
> > >
> >
> > So you think it's worth bothering 3000 people with your totally
> wasted message just
> > so *you* do not have to look up the answer in someplace that
> might actually have
> > the answer you want?
> >
> > PERL questions are a good way to get you banished from this list.
> >
> > >
> > > -Daniel
> > >
> >
> > Craig McClanahan
> >
> >
>
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