Yes, it's true. But hey I'm spoiled. Spoiled by the intelligent, witty answers and discussion concering all things Perl. But as a web designer/programmer, I feel a bit out of it with what seems to be an abundance of system admin chatter, questions, and answers.

I know, I know, the web stuff is not that exciting, however I, pesonally, will never be a system's guy. But I feel that I can develop much better web apps with the counsel of the Monks.

I feel a little leary about posting web dev questions in the company of the more rarified air of the sys admins lurking here, but I know, from experience, that the PM advice would be invaluable.

Get to the point, Brad! Okay how about a web-only area? That way, only Monks who are interested need visit/post/comment, etc.

There I've said it. Think about it. I'll be interested to read any feedback. Maybe this would make a good polling question: How many PM's are web developers and how many are using Perl for other tasks.

Update:

The minus-points I received for asking this question, notwithstanding, it was worth it to hear the other side to the question. It's actually reassuring to know that PM's are so open minded about answering my types of questions. Thanks all.

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Re: No, not a suggest for another area!
by sauoq (Abbot) on Oct 26, 2003 at 05:26 UTC
    I feel a little leary about posting web dev questions in the company of the more rarified air of the sys admins lurking here, but I know, from experience, that the PM advice would be invaluable.

    Go ahead and ask them!

    There is no bias here about asking web questions. This isn't efnet/#perl afterall, it's a web site and its engine is written in Perl.

    Besides, I'm not sure I even agree with your assessment. I think the number of web oriented questions here rivals and possibly exceeds the number of system admin questions. Of course, we get our share of questions about application programming and databases too.¹ And, it isn't really easy to draw clear boundaries between any of these subject areas. Many of us even have experience and can offer assistance in more than one area.

    Besides, most questions boil down to syntax or logic and have little or no dependence on the task intended for the program as a whole. There are, for instance, a whole lot of questions with "CGI" in their title that have absolutely nothing to do specifically with CGI.

    So, I've got to agree with BUU and pg: a web-only section is neither necessary nor desirable.

    1. And XML. And GUI stuff. And bioinformatics. And numerical analysis. Etc. Etc. Etc.

    -sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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Re: No, not a suggest for another area!
by pg (Canon) on Oct 26, 2003 at 04:12 UTC

    Obviously, we don't have any application specific area here. I would have no problem with a special room for web-only stuff, but then you have to be fair, why not have a room for telecom, why not have a room for AI, why not have a room for people who like pure math stuff...

    It simply complicates the situation more, now this means more clicks and further shorten the life of your poor mouse... Eventually nobody knows which is the right room for what. To be frank, I am already confused, "Cool Uses of Perl", "Snippets", "Craft" and "Code", how big is the difference among them ;-)

    Hey, this is Perl, let's keep it simple and straight.

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Re: No, not a suggest for another area!
by BUU (Prior) on Oct 26, 2003 at 04:08 UTC
    No, terrible idea, rack and ruin, catastrophe, etc. Perl is perl is perl, used for printing html or copying files. All this would do is artificially divide monks and quite possibly make more work.
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Re: No, not a suggest for another area!
by valdez (Monsignor) on Oct 26, 2003 at 09:50 UTC
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      valdez, Not sure where this would have gone. But in light of the replys and --XP pts, I say we drop it :-)
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