I'm reading the latest posts on all the nodes this morning and I'm thinking..."There is some good stuff here, but is someone holding back on a piece of code, a snippet if you will, because they are afraid of a flame?" A couple of weeks ago I posted a small but "useful to me" script that I thought would help out some of my fellow monks. Within hours of posting I received a reply from a fellow monk (httptech) that added tremendously to the usefulness of my script. I have resisted posting in the past out of fear of being flamed. My fear cost me the ability to contribute back to this wonderful community. I missed the opportunity to give something back, to express myself and to be heard. The Perl Community is not perfect, but compared to the C++ or Java Communities it is quite friendly. I attribute this to the inherent friendliness of the programming language and the sense of well being it imparts to the novice programmer who is able to accomplish wonders within hours of beginning to use Perl. I encourage all novices to post your little helpful scripts, or code snippets. Every Perl user can contribute in some way or another to the community of friends this language seems to create.

In reply to To Post or not? by Poetic Justice

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