Rob Bryant <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 10/2/05, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: <snip>
: : There's more and nitpicking seems petty <snip>
:
: Yep, you're right on the money with that. It does indeed seem
: petty.
Perhaps that's why he left it out.
Are you are arguing that Ovid's critique of perlmeme.org was
petty? I think you miss the point of the web site. It is meant
to teach programmers better programming practices.
<excerpt>
This site is devoted to spreading the perl meme and to providing
an easy place to find complete, working examples of good Perl
code.
</excerpt>
Having publicly proclaimed that their site provides "good
perl code" and "working examples", it is imperative that the
better programmers in the perl community test these examples for
those claims. Not doing this would be detrimental to the community
as we would have "approved" sites advancing poor code.
Ovid checked the code and found some of it didn't run while
other example were not well written. He then reported it here on
the relevant thread. There is nothing petty in this. He would be
irresponsible to the perl community had he not done this.
: So did Randal "I am Unhealthily Obsessed With The Flinstones"
: Schwartz's earlier post.
[yawn] Ad hominem attacks are not a replacement for sound
arguments.
: One would assume (apparently erroneously, however) that the
: "perl community" would generally be more enncouraging (sic) than
: discouraging the kind of effort the original poster put forth.
How was Randal discouraging the perlmeme.org contributors? He
said he would remove his complaint with the addition of just one
link. That link would *include* them into our community, not
exclude them.
: Anyway, this thread wasn't a complete waste. Now I remember why
: I always start to use Perl but then abandon it-- great tool,
: crappy community.
I find the perl community to be a fine one. I have found,
though, that I only get from any group what I add to it. If I
can only add pessimism . . .
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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