I like your view on this, GrandFather- it's refreshing. I'm sure it must get very tedious for the old-timers to keep seeing the same basic questions time and again, but they're new for the people who ask them. I think the more senior monks sometimes forget how much they've learned here (and elsewhere), and figure everyone should know about what they do. Of course, the new guys don't...

Perlmonks is one of the most valuable resources I know to learn and use Perl (the other is CPAN). There is so much richness of information here, but it's not always obvious (especially to a new person) how to find it. So yes, repetition is inevitable, and I agree it's not necessarily a Bad Thing.

In reply to Re: It's been said before and it'll be said again by spiritway
in thread It's been said before and it'll be said again by GrandFather

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