There is an interesting common attribute of the three types of question you like: they all come from people who already have some decent amount of Perl knowledge -- enough to have formed some idea of how things should work and what sorts of solutions they can choose from. Yes, it's always good when people already know things.

I've been noticing that a lot of SoPW posts are coming from people who admit to being new to Perl and/or new to programming in general. (Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there are more of these lately than there used to be, thinking back over the years.) And sometimes, they present a fourth kind of question: "I need to do this particular thing with this sort of data, and I don't know how."

That kind can be really "good", when a reply can show a pseudo-code solution, and point out how short and easy the transition can be from coherent pseudo-code to a working perl script. Of course, this often gets confounded by the OP not having any initial code, and replies saying "show us what you've tried", and so on. And of course, sometimes it's just homework or a FAQ. But sometimes it's "real."

In reply to Re: Stupid stumpers and good questions by graff
in thread Stupid stumpers and good questions by ELISHEVA

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