>>>>> "Shawn" == "Mr Shawn H Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shawn> Not everyone who reads this mailing list posts to it. What impression Shawn> would his comments leave on them? How can we encourage people to use Shawn> Perl if they think they will receive harsh criticism? The fact that the Shawn> criticism was to a response and not an original post is unimportant; the Shawn> fact that is was done is. I never criticize a question here (unless it's homework), so this shouldn't be construed by onlookers as a discouragement to ask questions. I *do* criticize broken *answers* though, so hopefully anyone looking on will *test* their answers before posting. Then the original questioner gets *good* code, I can skip answering that, and we *all win*. This is what I'm aiming for. Ask all you want, but when you answer, be DAMN WELL sure that it's a good answer. And if you're not sure or you don't have time to test, MOVE ON, because someone else will probably answer better, faster, cheaper. There's enough experts in this group already: we don't need to be distracted by threads like this where we've had to point out the flaws in an answer. Thank you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
