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On 12-05-03 11:16 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: > Or you could exercise that whole "freedom to not answer questions" thing I mentioned. > > I didn't say the list was for "general Perl and CPAN questions". It is for people who are beginning to learn Perl, or some aspect of Perl. Generally speaking, people want to learn Perl so they can accomplish something, not as an end in and of itself -- so sometimes, they're going to have questions about Perl, and sometimes about a particular module. Off the top of my head, I can think of questions about Bio::Perl, Template.pm, CGI.pm, DBI ... the list is long. Too long. It's easy to ignore the whole list. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. [updated for today's programmers] "Show me your code and conceal your interfaces, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your interfaces, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks Don't be clever; being great is good enough.Thread Previous