Matt Wright came along at a time when the masses were hungry for "plug-n-play" solutions. His poorly coded perl4-style solutions quickly satisfied the crowd.

My web techniques column archive gets many thousands of hits a week, but I'm not playing to the crowd -- I'm playing to the web architecture designer. My stuff's not plug-n-play... you have to have at least half a brain to use them. And those with half a brain or more do in fact know to use my columns as resources, and refer others there frequently.

So the masses still get the oatmeal they deserve, while the connoisseurs like us can dine on fine meat and wines. I have no problem with that.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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