On May 29, 10:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > Brian wrote: > I agree with you Brian. I have been posting on this list for around four > years, and rarely have I seen 'help' that is expressed with such vitriol > as Paul's has been.
I'm truly sorry you feel that way, Brian. My responses are intended to match the attitude of the poster. When the poster starts off a thread by implying that the documentation is worthless, and that his superior programming and debugging skills are going to be of far more use to a new programmer, I tend to lose respect for him. When he continues the thread by refusing to point out *what* is wrong with the docs, only asserting that they are "provably unhelpful", and then stating that he has not the time to "rewrite them", I lose all respect. When he continuously asserts that a built-in function "doesn't work", but refuses to show any code to support this assertion, we sink into the negative, and it becomes blatant dis- respect. Yes, my attitude in response is more blatant and obvious. I don't hide how I feel behind polite-sounding words. That doesn't make the attitude itself any different than the OP's. Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
