On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 12:21 , John W. Krahn wrote:
> Drieux wrote: >> >> f) Visit the ActiveState Folks, and Source Forge, look at how >> they are solving problems. Decide which of them are useful >> solutions, by demonstration. > > I don't know that I would trust any Perl code at Source Forge. I've > looked at some of the Perl projects there and some of the code is pretty > bad. :-( it is also home to the 'nms' project.... The challenging part for 'new coders' is being able to gain your level of sophistication so that they too can see what you see.... and thus say: a) "EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! yes, technically THAT TEXT FILE is 'perl like code' and would execute, and mostly do what is asserted in the text about that 'code like stuff'..... but: RUN AWAY!!!!!" b) "Right, that gets installed." c) "with a little bit of tweeking we can use that...." then they can move along to actually implementing on their own all three classes..... ciao drieux --- I use to have a God Complex, then I learned about the software development process. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]