Re: Unfriendly messages from people who should know better

2002-01-03 Thread Jim Kobbe
I'm going to have to agree with Randal, here. Maybe I can chime in with a less acidic tone. If you don't want people to see your code, don't write it in a scripting language. Buy a commercial C compiler and write commercial grade code. Perl is a marvelous language for writing public domain code t

Re: Unfriendly messages from people who should know better

2002-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Graham" == Graham Gudgin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> I find it disturbing to see these guidelines being ignored by people Graham> who should know better - people who have a lot of respect within the Graham> Perl community. Such messages as (excerpted): If you had something to say

[ADMIN] Re: Unfriendly messages from people who should know better

2002-01-03 Thread Casey West
This thread is closed, my statement follows. On Jan 03, 2002 at 10:51 -0500, Graham Gudgin took the soap box and proclaimed: : The reason I was first attracted to this list was because of an article, : announcing its launch (and that of the perl beginners list), in which the : general theme was

Re: Unfriendly messages from people who should know better

2002-01-03 Thread Jeremy Webster
I agree with Graham completely. Let's try to keep responses limited to useful solutions to peoples problems. - Original Message - From: "Graham Gudgin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:51 AM Subject: Unfriendly messages from people who should