I think your answers are actually excellent, I've already told you that before. Look, it's just a different approach -- it may seem like my post was a bit self-righteous ("just a bit?") but not every larval perl user is clone of all the others -- proto-geeks with near-infinite spare hours to pore through volumes of electronic documentation. Some people are just coming over to Perl from another language, they need to know it NOW because their livelihood might depend on them acquiring a new skill as quickly as possible. (that's just one possible scenario)

Anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument, and I think you are cool and you haven't been mean to anyone that I am aware of, but I don't think a dialogue on site philosophy is terribly out of bounds. No skin off my back if the clueful give perl monks (the site OR the people) a cold shoulder, for whatever reason. Okay, I might be a little hurt, just a bit :-)

I understand if you get annoyed that people treat #perl like a help desk. I'm not surprised that they do. It's not like perl has a help desk. (Sure, there's lots of self-help available).
Perl Monks fills a niche, I think it's cool. So I wish you peace, love, and free beer :-)

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