From: "Oliver Schleede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> yes, i've forgotten to mention that there's lot of arrogance among the
> enlighted perl folks.
Please do not confuse arrogance with frustration.
David said it better so I'll just give an example from a couple of weeks
ago. Someone posted this question.....
> I executed time() and return the value in variable $r. So $r is equal
> to smth like 923456123 (or so). Is this quantity of seconds since the
> epoch or what? How to convert into normal date/time format?
He got RTFMed rather sharply. He is also going to at least *try* to
find an answer in the docs before asking another silly question.
I take up questions from the mailing list sometimes (if anything is left
after $Bill goes to sleep ;-). 50% is pointers to stuff in the docs, some
things are a little hard to find. That's ok. Perl is *big*. PHP is
*small*. Small enough that newbies who want an instant noodles fix for a
CGI problem can find it.
With Perl you can spend days just looking over the modules that are
available....on your hard disk.... and then discover CSPAN! :-)))
The poster above didn't want to spend the time. TMTOWTDI but that isn't
one of them. Toast!
NB: Which CGI Language For Which Purpose?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/05/0137201&mode=nested&threshold=0
madstork2000 has some good points about Perl/PHP
Rob
http://bangkokwizard.com/
Documentation is worth it just to be able to answer all your mail with
'RTFM' - Alan Cox
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