No disrepect intended, but testing programming skills has absolutely nothing to do with what I brought up. The idea isn't to see who's Perl Fu is strongest. The idea was to help educate (which is what I think this site is partly about). This education I speak of is around the community, not the language.

Sorry if my intention was mistated. I think one of the strong points of this site is the fact that it remains fairly classless. And I think it's better for reputation to preceed someone than a credential. So no.. my purpose behind this has nothing to do with testing programming skills. In fact, the testing is a more minor part. The intentnion was to offer an idea on how to better acclimate people to this culture, not divide people based on their Perl skills.

Hope this clairifies things..
Rich

In reply to Re: Re: Thoughts on Rants by rchiav
in thread Thoughts on Rants by rchiav

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