I guess we have different programming philosophy. I like Perl, and open source programming in general, because there are no "lower levels". I don't like "black box" programming where modules are used without really knowing what exactly is going on inside. If something doesn't work the way I want, I like to be able to open the lid and see why. I don't like having to format text for no good reason and have posts look like some uni-brow without any returns when there is a return key. I would not like wasting my own and everyone else's time for perpetuity by writing code that forces everybody to waste time inserting paragraph breaks. I calculated if it takes an extra 10 minutes a day for n users, in ten years that would be, well calculate it your own way but that's a whole lot of wasted time that could be spent more productively. If nobody wants to be bothered than I won't be bothered wasting my own time to manually input what should be automatic. If that makes this difficult to read, tough cookies. It will be less time consuming to fix it than to have to mark up any more html unnecessarily. The surprise here is that "RETURN" on the keyboard is disabled when it works fine in every other app or any other website or forum. Having a working return key would not deter anyone who doesn't want to use it from not using it. -- Tom

In reply to Re^14: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by PerlGuy(Tom)
in thread Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by ELISHEVA

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