So when is Off Topic really On Topic...?

Always a tough question as you know. Probably ends up being a subjective call every time, as long as Perl is the 'strange attractor' in the thread.

Your GUI tut is terrific, and I'd vote for its appearance in Tutorials with links to it.

For new readers I was going to list a couple of quick links to other discussions about OT definitions and just tried a quick Super Search for " OT " (note the quoted spaces), but the spaces were stripped so no results were returned for the now 2 char search string.

Through other machinations I found:

There must be many more that I missed.

In reply to Re: When is OT really OT? by tjh
in thread When is OT really OT? by tachyon

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