That's reminding me of a discussion on the same subject a few weeks ago.

Sometimes someone asks about how to do this with Perl under Linux (or pick whatever other OS, application, network environment, etc.). And, although it related to Perl, it is obviously a question about that OS or environment rather than Perl. I might reply something like this:

You might have a better chance of a good response on the following Linux (or whatever) forum.
If I make such answer, I am just trying to help the OP and tell him or her to check on another forum, but it certainly does not mean that I consider the OP to be off-topic, but just that it might be better on-topic on another forum, but that post still is on-topic here.

Other wise, I basically agree with Your Mother:

"Anything applicable to Computer Science (algorithm, theory, practice, NP complete discussions, etc) or to work involving Perl (project management, how much beer makes you a better hacker or does it, keyboard selection, glued languages, editors...) seems the complete range of Off-Topic that would be acceptable and does range very far afield but still might belong here or help other monks."

In reply to Re: Define "On Topic" for the Monastery by Laurent_R
in thread Define "On Topic" for the Monastery by jdporter

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