Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > As the old proverb goes: give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. > Teach him how to fish, and he has food forever.
True, but you don't teach someone fishing by poking an eye out with a fishing rod. > I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy, and don't like LMGTFY because it is > tiresome and requires Javascript. I prefer: My reply had little to do with lmgtfy and all to do with hiding it behind tinyurl. But even then, why not do what you just did: give a URL to google directly. For quite some time I thought that comp.lang.perl.misc was quite unfriendly because of a certain attitude. comp.lang.python was quite a refreshment for a while: very newbie friendly, less pissing contests, etc. (but way more fanboism). Yesterday was a sady day: I finally had to conclude that it was only wishful thinking on my part; there is no difference. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
