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Re^3: how to get the perl installed modulesby Polonius (Friar) |
on Jun 05, 2006 at 10:31 UTC ( [id://553560]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
madtoperl, I considered messaging this privately, but I think there are lessons here that might benefit others. Several years ago, in an HTML forum, I set about answering another poster's question. After about three-quarters of an hour picking out various mistakes in the OP's code (which had obviously been cut-and-pasted from other sources with little understanding), it seemed that I had spent more time on this than the original poster. Many years before that, when I was new to programming, I sat beside someone much more experienced, who was able to answer all my questions. Whenever I had the slightest difficulty, it was too easy to ask. As Frederick Brooks said, "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment." (Thanks for the link, eyepopslikeamosquito.) If you spend more time trying to fix errors yourself rather than calling for help (I know it's tempting; I've been there), you will learn much more from your own mistakes.
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