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 mess

Unfriendly messages from people who should know better

2002-01-03 Thread Graham Gudgin
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 that for too long, newcomers to Perl had been subjected to "RTFM" in response to pleas for help. The lists were being set up to p