The Chatterbox can be helpful, but it does have its limitations with regard to asking non-Perl questions. I use DevShed when I'm stuck and I must say I had very little joy there - there just isn’t enough participants, and I usually have to wait a day before a get a reply which helps me out of what ever hole I've managed to fall into. Maybe there’s some others out there, but I do see your point, a separate forum titled "Non-Perl Related" would be very helpful, and if people weren’t interested in it then they wouldn’t click on its link - just like I've never visited the "Obfuscated Code" section...actually I did, once. ;)

In reply to Re: Re: OT: Does this site need an by Baz
in thread OT: Does this site need an Off-Topic area? by Poblachtach32

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