I think you are missing the point. If a beginner knew the *right* place to find information, he would not be a beginner.
Meditate on this and think about the time when you were a beginner and how someone helped you.
Meditate on how the world would be if people in other professions did the same thing you do. For example, you go into a doctor's office and he gives you a lecture on how you need to find the appropriate medical resource and tells you to go to the library and look it up.
Joe.
On Jun 1, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
I heartily agree. People should be helpful. In the old days of the internet this was more common. Being kind is what separates a prince from a rouge.
Besides the documentation is obscure and lacking and not easy to know where it is found.
True, however this is a list for Mac OS X related questions, not newbie
Perl questions. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a much better choice, and much
friendlier when it comes to such questions, as that is its focus. RTFM
is a good answer on a topic specific list where it is assumed one
already knows how to access the M. "In the old days of the internet" it
was also more common for one to put in the required amount of effort to
find the most proper place to ask their question, which is less and less
common.
"A list for beginning Perl programmers to ask questions in a friendly atmosphere." - beginners
"Discussion of Perl on Macintosh OS X" - macosx
http://lists.perl.org
Time to throw this out again: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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