On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:41:56PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Reinhold Riedersberger wrote: > > >ich habe ein für mich seltsames Problem:
> This is an English language list. > > Please pose your question in English, not German. I don't know about that. Whilst it's true that the majority of questions will likely get better or faster answers if they are in English I see no reason to prohibit people from posting in other languages. I would far rather see a well crafted question in a language other than English than a bad question in English, whether that is because the questioner's English is not very strong or because the questioner has not put in the effort to ask a good question. Now, at the time that Reinhold posted it is likely that the majority of the German speakers on this list were asleep, but I wouldn't have been at all surprised if he had received a reply in German today, had he not already reposted in English. Perl is used all over the world. The last three YAPC::EU conferences have been in non-English speaking countries, even though the conferences themselves have been conducted predominantly in English. There are numerous local workshops held in languages other than English. Many of those who develop Perl and CPAN modules are not native English speakers. I'm pleased about that. I think it brings a diversity and strength to the Perl community. It also allowed me to move to Switzerland to hack Perl :-) We often point people to mjd's piece on "Why Questions go Unanswered" at http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html The end of the first paragraph seems relevant here. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
