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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:05:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 19 Oct 2005 Volume: 10 Number: 8545
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Re: why the perl docs suck <Fred@fred.net>
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:41:29 -0500
From: "Fred@fred.net" <Fred@fred.net>
Subject: Re: why the perl docs suck
Message-Id: <otldl1tcn1olhcmovghrih3t0j953i9nml@4ax.com>
On 19 Oct 2005 14:26:04 GMT, anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno
Siegel) wrote:
>Fred@fred.net <Fred@fred.net> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:19:44 -0500, Tad McClellan
>> <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Fred@fred.net <Fred@fred.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I was never welcome.
>> >
>> >
>> >Yes you were.
>> >
>> >Everybody is welcome here (until they do something socially unacceptable).
>> >
>> >
>> >So, what was it that you did that got people mad that first time?
>>
>> Were it that it was only once.
>> Your good cop right?
>
>I had to read that twice to understand that you mean "You're good cop, right?"
>A quip, like a joke, must work at once or it doesn't work at all. This
>one has failed.
Oh I feel very terrible.
>
>> I assert that people are not welcome here save for a set of procedures
>> desribing the most tortured sets of considerations that one might
>> never be able to ascertain for certain once and for all whether a
>> given message should be even composed much less posted.
>
>I had to read that three times, and it still doesn't really make sense.
But you did understand it, right?
>
>If your purpose was to convince me you have clear and worthwhile thoughts
>on the subject, you failed again.
This failure thing is really getting me down!
>
>If the purpose was to parody the Posting Guidelines, that fails too.
>Its author is one who sacrifices originality for clarity, in Perl code
>and in prose. Convolution is carefully avoided in its style.
>
>> So if ya call that welcome....
>
>You can be sure your posting will be welcome if you follow plain common
>sense. As with all published text, the rule is: Consider its purpose,
>and consider its readers. Apply the rule to the posting as a whole, and
>to specific parts (Subject, code, quoted parts, etc). If you do that (and
>your purpose is benign, i.e. you're not a troll) your posting will be
>welcome. That goes for all of Usenet, not just clpm.
>
>The Posting Guidelines are for those whose posts fail to show that
>consideration. Obviously, they need to have the consequences spelled
>out for them, that's why the document is long and has a lot of rules.
>They are all corollaries of the one basic rule.
>
>Anno
Imagine a world without rules.... it's not as ridiculous as it sounds.
One of my favorite quotes is:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
I'll try again---
I submit for consideration of everyone or no one that the guidelines
for posting to this ng are so restrictive that deciding whether a
certain post should be or should not be made is more tedious than
solving the problem on one's own?
There that's it.
Fred
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