Perl Beginnners

I believe that this list is a good place to find good advice about how
to write Perl well. 'beginners' is a misnomer, but our task is to advise
properly or to redirect the question.

At the end of this post is a copy of a mail that Casey West sent to me
privately, but the 'Ten Years of Considerate Help' thread.

Perl is public property. Mock it as you would mock colour and you would
be wrong. Love it as you would love your next-door neighbour amd you
would still be wrong.

Please write programs. It's like finger painting - it makes things
happen and then go again :)

Casey has said this to me. I think he needs to get over himself. What do
you say?

> On 30/05/2011 01:31, Casey West wrote:
>>
>> After more than half a decade of being away from the list, the community
>> has failed to moderate itself. Instead, people still seem compelled to
>> come to me for assistance on the list. Reluctantly, and with very little
>> time and enthusiasm, I'm doing the job of the community for the
>> community. Open source and open communities are all about being able to
>> self heal when members drop away for whatever reason.
>>
>> Why, then, has the beginners list been incapable of finding its own
>> suitable list of moderators in my long-standing absence? It's baffling,
>> frankly.
>>
>> A beginners list moderator has no particular enhanced abilities. There
>> are no explicitly available capabilities at my disposal. I cannot, for
>> example, remove someone from the list. Nor can I enforce anything. I
>> still have to ask the perl.org admins (Ask and Robert)
>> for anything I'd require in particular. Same goes for _everyone else on
>> the list_.
>>
>> My behavior is easy to explain. I don't have a driving proclivity to
>> father grown men and women acting worse than my own young children.
>>
>> Your thoughts?
>>
>> - Casey


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Re: Perl Beginnners

On 31/05/2011 20:11, Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> I believe that this list is a good place to find good advice about how
> to write Perl well. 'beginners' is a misnomer, but our task is to advise
> properly or to redirect the question.

This was a draft that I rejected in favour of my post to the 'Ten Years
of Considerate help' thread. I clearly sent it in this state instead of
deleting it, and regret that it ever appeared on the list, if only
because it reproduced private mail wholesale which I would never condone.

Please do your best to ignore this thread's existence and pass it over.

Rob

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