Hello,
I came back to office after an extended weekend and realized that my
words might have irked some of you.
But let me explain.
I agree, acquiring the 'mental tools' to do it myself is always the best
way. I had tried out a few sample scripts
myself (most of them failed). After spending a few hours on it my
morals got weak and I could not resist the temptation to post to this
group.
I am always surprised by innovative solutions by the gurus in this
group.
Like the way to initialize all the array elements to zero - 0 x @array
. These kind of solutions make me read the perldocs.
I do read the archives whenever I find time, Even when I have not
posted any questions. It is a pleasure to read some of your mails. I am
wary of answering to any queries though. Invariably, I see a better
solution in response then what I had in mind. I am learning and I will
be answering like "anything" soon ;)
Thanks, Charles K Clarkson. I understand your concerns. I will google
and cpan and try hard to find the answer myself before I post to this
group.
Larry wall says that laziness is a virtue, but my laziness bordered on
brazenness.
Cheers,
Chetak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: I went through perldoc perlrun and saw the code.
:
: I thought it as a criminal waste of time to try and
: modify that code for my purpose, when I can ask you
: folks :-)
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but that sounds
to me like you would rather get us to do your work for
free instead of you acquiring the mental tools to do it yourself. In the
long run, that doesn't really help you, does it?
Many of us are here to *help* you get past the
problems you are having with your code. We are not here
as a code writing resource. Again, perhaps I am
misreading your message. If so, my apologies.
If not, try to find answers on your own first.
Look at the documentation that comes with perl. Search
the internet with Google. We help a lot of folks here,
but we assume you have at least tried to solve things
yourself.
Take a look at the archives. Many of us that help
very rarely ask questions here. I, for one, have
learned how to answer most of my questions through
research and by "wasting my time" and *not* asking here
first. I'll bet a lot of programmers more experienced
then me do the same.
: PS: I see this term 'foo' 'bar' in many programming
: books, what is the etymology of this?
RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo":
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html
BTW, this was the first link returned by Google.
You could have at least tried to find it on your own.
http://www.google.com/search?q=foo+etymology
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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