On 2010.06.10 05:07, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 00:59, C.DeRykus <dery...@gmail.com> wrote: > snip >> Not that I know of but you write your own subroutine >> using the index code you've shown. Nearly trivial to >> do and, after all, plagiarism is a virtue :) > snip > > I know that this was meant as a joke, but plagiarism is not a virtue > in the Perl community; our virtues are [Laziness, Impatience, and > Hubris][1]. Stealing code definitely falls under Laziness, but the > truly Lazy thing to do is to document where it came from (so you can > find it again). By documenting where it came from, you are no longer > plagiarizing (but you may be violating copyright). > > [1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_programmer
Very well said chas... Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
