If you hadn't already posted his story here, I would have suggested that a better course of action would have been to tell the poor guy about this wonderful language with a superb code repository, and then point him at perlmonks to help him with the nitty gritty.

Here, we don't know where anyone works - we're just helpful. Too bad we couldn't do likewise externally, but that's just life, I suppose. Anyway, we don't know that tye isn't working for a spammer or that Win isn't working for Google. We just are as helpful as we can, given the questions we get. So if this poor guy came upon us by some gentle prodding, he could learn exactly how simple this was and maybe stick around and learn more things he could do with perl. And then evangelise to his work group.

Instead, you seem (to me) to be suggesting some sort of shunning. That seems very un-monk-like. After all, you didn't shun Jason!

In reply to Re: The Importance of Being Earnest by Tanktalus
in thread The Importance of Being Earnest by zshzn

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