why are so many of the responses here ill-tempered and unhelpful?


I started out programming in Perl a dozen years ago. At the time I thought I just wasn't getting "it" because I couldn't understand a lot of the documentation.


And the comments on the board were always
"WTF??!?!RTFM?!?!?!"



I've grown, learned, matured. And the process, I've had a lot of experience with different languages and different open source programming communities.


Still, I love perl.


Yet whenever I encounter comments like this, with all the extraneous punctuation and the condescending phrasing -- well it makes me first of all glad that I studied women in college instead of CompSci and secondly, ashamed to be associated with such backbiting geeks.


Now please, you people, you know who you are, GTFU.

In reply to Re^2: perl's sleep function by Anonymous Monk
in thread perl's sleep function by jesuashok

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