Clarity of expression is key

On the other hand, if you had asked "What is the area of Singapore," you would have gotten:

Area:

total: 692.7 sq km
water: 10 sq km
land: 682.7 sq km
Area - comparative:

slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC

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Re: Clarity of expression is key by xenchu (Friar) on Dec 02, 2003 at 15:01 UTC
That was one of the points I was trying to make. With a system such as START you have to know how to ask the question. Usually rather exactly how to ask. At Perl Monks, questioner often get the answer to the question s/he should have asked. And I am not trying to downrate START. I don't know the area of Singapore or most of the millions of other questions START can answer. It appears, though, that you had better know the question you want to ask. XENCHU Perl has one Great Advantage and one Great Disadvantage: It is very easy to write a complex and powerful program in three lines of code. ******************************************** `The Needs of the World and my Talents run parallel to infinity.`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Clarity of expression is key
by xenchu (Friar) on Dec 02, 2003 at 15:01 UTC

should

Perl has one Great Advantage and one Great Disadvantage:

It is very easy to write a complex and powerful program in three lines of code.
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The Needs of the World and my Talents run parallel to infinity.

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