On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 19/04/2011 12:56, Jenda Krynicky wrote: >>>> >>>> SF> Well, you are right naturally, but there is no need to be so >>>> SF> rude. Start your email with a greeting, continue with a >>>> SF> compliment, use soft words, etc. Otherwise, you may be scaring >>>> SF> many people away. See some of my advice in: >> >> Try Alcoholics Anonymous. This is not a post-traumatic mutual support >> group, this is a technical mailing list! If you can't handle a terse >> and to the point reply, you should change the profession and try to >> find nicer talking people in the humanities. The catch is that the >> emails will start with a greeting, continue with a compliment, use >> soft words ... and be empty, empty, empty. >> >>> You could have said that it is not a good thing, while being polite and >>> much >>> less hostile and angry. As it is, you are scaring many people from this >>> list. >> >> As it is, those people should not be doing anything technical in the >> first place. The compiler will not start with a greeting and >> compliment their hairstyle either. > > You really believe that conveying technical knowledge requires rudeness, > sarcasm, and snide remarks? Too many people here seem to think that the > extent of their Perl knowledge entitles them to fits of bad manners and > lazy language. If you struggle to make positive comments as well as > negative ones then perhaps you should stick to writing Perl instead of > trying to teach it. >
well, it is our culture. some fields have a culture of inclusion, technology generally has a culture of exclusion. Uri and Jenda's remarks show pretty good examples if this elite attitude. not saying that it's right or that cultures can't change, just saying what i've experienced (and sometimes dealt out). than again, maybe that's why we get paid so well; not really because of being able to do things that no one else can do but because we deal with and serve up bull shit so well - that might be our biggest honed skill. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
