why are so many of the responses here ill-tempered and unhelpful?


I started out programming in Perl a dozen years ago. At the time I thought I just wasn't getting "it" because I couldn't understand a lot of the documentation.


And the comments on the board were always

"WTF??!?!RTFM?!?!?!"

I've grown, learned, matured. And the process, I've had a lot of experience with different languages and different open source programming communities.


Still, I love perl.


Yet whenever I encounter comments like this, with all the extraneous punctuation and the condescending phrasing -- well it makes me first of all glad that I studied women in college instead of CompSci and secondly, ashamed to be associated with such backbiting geeks.


Now please, you people, you know who you are, GTFU.

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