Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

[Dave Cross]

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:02:29 +0100, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
>  
> > Heh! Go easy on them. Most of them are just harmless idiots. There 
> > are a couple who reckon themselves a bit tho' - and it's quite fun 
> > taking them down a peg or two.
> 
> I've posted a couple of things there now. A coupld of the posters seem
> to have taken umbrage to Dave being the 'Daddy' now - muttering stuff
> about most number of posts.

Heh. I'm the Daddy and they're all my bitches!

> One post was a question about the new edition and whether it was going
> to use strict and turn on warnings.

And you got a response remarkably quickly.

I read the proofs of the first half of the new edition over the weekend.
It does cover -w, use strict and CGI.pm. Haven't seen the security 
stuff yet, but from what I've seen it looks very good.

I may even have to start recommending to people!

Dave...

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

[Simon Wistow]

Dave Cross wrote:
 
> Heh! Go easy on them. Most of them are just harmless idiots. There are
> a couple who reckon themselves a bit tho' - and it's quite fun taking
> them down a peg or two.

I've posted a couple of things there now. A coupld of the posters seem
to have taken umbrage to Dave being the 'Daddy' now - muttering stuff
about most number of posts.

One post was a question about the new edition and whether it was going
to use strict and turn on warnings.

The other was an attempt at debugging this womans code

 print
"Your name is: ",$co->em($co->param('text')),".",
$co->p,"\n",
"Your email is: ",$co->em($co->param('text')),".",
$co->p,"\n",
"The city and state you live in:
",$co->em(join(",",$co->param('text'))),".",
$co->p,"\n",


by suggesting that possibly she didn't want all to retrieve all the
information for $co->param('text').

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

[Dave Cross]

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:50:26 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> > Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone 
> > wants to join in my fun, the board is at:
> >
> > 
> >
> > Share & Enjoy,
> 
> Must .. Control .. The .. Keyboard .. Of .. Fire 

Heh! Go easy on them. Most of them are just harmless idiots. There are
a couple who reckon themselves a bit tho' - and it's quite fun taking
them down a peg or two.

Dave...

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants
> to join in my fun, the board is at:
>
> 
>
> Share & Enjoy,
>

Must .. Control .. The .. Keyboard .. Of .. Fire 

/J\

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

[Matthew Byng-Maddick]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less
> able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues.

You've also developed the bad habit of referring to them as "programmers".

> The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's
> book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target
> audience.

Yeah /me read it and now wants to run away fast, though it is quite
amusing...

> Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants
> to join in my fun, the board is at:
> 

Haven't got the time to do my standard flamey stuff, and my asbestos suit
is looking a little worn at the moment... :)

MBM

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