On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:39:42AM -0400, Green, Paul wrote: > H.Merijn Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > > So far, all I got was criticism. I asked for it. But no-one said it was > useful. > > (Or I didn't read between the lines enough). > > In my experience, the phrase "I really liked your idea and I hope you won't > mind if I share a few ideas for improving it" needs to be inserted before > almost anything critical that an engineer says. I've just taken to assuming > that the fact that people are giving narrow criticisms is a sign they like > the overall picture. And my life is now better for realizing these two > truths. :-)
We're Perl programmers. Praise is implicit, like everything else in the language. :) -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.
