49 as of yesterday. I can't say that I haven't fired off a PM question without doing the necessary research with the materials I already had... damned if I didn't do it again this morning!

I think we all are getting a bit impatient, the older as well as the younger. Sometimes for good reasons (too much needs to be done) and sometimes for bad... (too much laziness to do it). I'd agree that there's a huge shift in the ability of young people who expect the massive multimedia input of a television all the time and can't deal with the limited bandwidth and suspense of a book... nor can they handle processing on their own. I have found in my ORSP teaching that ten year olds are already too used to the abovementioned input to be able to deal with a #2 pencil and a problem. I've been striving for a long time to see any good that might come from this input conditioning, but I haven't been able to see it, except as indicated by video game performance which leads to better fighter pilots.

All that bunkhouse barf aside, as I stated at the top, I think I am part of the problem, too. I don't think you can limit it to an age classification.

In reply to Re: Average Age of the Perl Monk - Poll? by samizdat
in thread Average Age of the Perl Monk - Poll? by diakonos

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