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Due to my users are complete morons...
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Be careful with those stones: One might call someone who uses a sentence as poorly constructed as that a "moron", too.
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Your users are not morons. They're human. What's more,
they're humans who don't really need to worry about whether
there's a space between before the AM/PM. Why should they
waste their human brain cycles dealing with something that the machine can handle just as well?
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Remember why we're programmers: "Machines should work. People should think." The whole point of the machine is to take the drudgery off the human. Taking a snippy attitude at your users benefits no one.
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Fortunately, Perl makes this sort of drudgery simple to handle, as you've already seen.
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Take the path to the light of helpfulness, not to the darkness of insulting your customers.
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xoxo,<BR>
Andy<BR>
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Throw down the gun and tiara and come out of the float!
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