On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:52:39 -0600, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
>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. There was a time, when the internet was young and most newbies couldn't find their own backsides with both hands, that your conclusions would be well placed.That time has long passed: Newsgroups are a long way down the hierarchy since those times and anyone turning up here nowadays _has_ heard of Google. If they haven't used it, I don't really consider the gentle reminder that LMGTFY gives too harsh. If you do, you're too much of a gentle soul to be on the internet at all; someone might say "Boo" to you at any moment. Beware. DaveM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
