Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Scott Thompson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *> While I wholeheartedly agree with the above statement,
> might I suggest
> *>others not to take this statement TOO literally. For
> myself, I have learned
> *>just as much about Perl -- sometimes MORE -- by "bucking"
> the tried-and-true
> *>methods to discover my own path. Sometimes I'd come
> stumbling back to the
> *>common wisdom, battered and bruised for my efforts. Other
> times, I've
> *>picked up my own little nuggets of wisdom that worked best
> for me and my
> *>situation despite the commonly accepted Truth.
>
> Parents always try to protect their children from repeating the same
> mistakes as they did when young though, being children, they will most
> often choose the path of doing whatever it is that they
> aren't supposed to
> do and learn the lesson contained therein. Similarly
> programmers try and
> protect the people coming after them from going up the same
> blind alleys,
> etc...yet, it often doesn't work.
>
> As reading improves upon your English skill so too does reading code
> improve your Perl. Life is short and it is our mistakes that
> provide the
> most interesting anecdotes and texture to what perfection
> would leave as
> smooth and featureless. :)
On a related, but distinct, note: I hope the knowledge sources on the list
will keep their audience in mind. There was a recent question about
deleting an array element; the thread devolved into a discussion of the
care, feeding, and impending demise of pseudohashes -- really fascinating
stuff on some lists, really pointless on this one.
