And your geekcode would have to be much more complex than this.

Of course, and I thought I was being facetious. The best approach is to give as simple and clear answer as you can, assuming the other person will understand. Then if they give followup questions, determine their skill level by the nature of the question.

The one followup question that I always get, about Perl being a commandline line program, that makes me cringe, is " oh, it's DOS". I usually just say yeah, it's a suped-up DOS. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are

In reply to Re^3: Right answers for the right people by zentara
in thread Right answers for the right people by Jenda

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