Re: [MacPerl] beginner perl questions pls

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 01:14 -0800 11/9/98, Jay Bedsole wrote:
> George wrote:
>
> > Does anyone object to my posing some beginner PERL questions
> > to the group as long as they are not voluminous and not posted
> > often...these are notr necessarily MacPerl questions although
> > I do use it occasionally?
>
> then Brian wrote:
>
> > I object. I'd like to see this list be limited, as much as
> > possible, to MacPerl questions.
>
> Gotta agree with Brian here. Beginner MacPerl questions are
> OK, but try to avoid the beginner perl questions... though,
> admittedly, to a beginner, it's not always easy to differentiate.
> You're not likely to get scorched on this list, but you may be
> told where to go... that's usually a helpful thing, here. [wink]

Sigh.

Once again, I desparately wish for this to be a list where _MacPerl
users_ can ask questions that might, just might, be considered
_Perl_ questions.

Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> I haven't noticed that questions on comp.lang.perl.misc don't get
> answered. They do, they get answered rapidly and thoroughly.

Yes, they do that.  Sometimes too rapidly.  Sometimes too succinctly.
And not always politely. (And personally, I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME to read
the net (still looking for a net to mail gateway program...)).

Why should we throw our new friends, other Macophiles just like us, to the
wolves of comp.lang.perl.misc just because their question isn't stretched
to make it Mac OS specific?

Even if the answer is "it's in perlfoo.pod" (or, in our case, under the
Help menu under Foo), that's a lot nicer than the response someone's likely
to get in some other circles ("Look in the FAQ, dummy" doesn't quite follow
Larry's ultimate rule of Perl style, c.f. The Camel, p. 550).

sigh.  Sometimes I think we need another list.

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