You can usually tell whether the person "knows no Perl" or "has no programming experience whatsoever". The first are usually fine, no matter what language did the person work with before. Except for an occasional "how do I do foo in Perl" where "foo" is not a task, but rather the name of a function in some (often unknown) other language. I generally hate those. I'm pretty certain I could help the person, if only he told us what the heck he wants to do. But I can't know all functions from all languages.

An example in that other language TOGETHER with the explanation is great, a single function name is useless.

The questions asked by people with no programming experience are usually ... either so vague that I do not have any idea what is the actual question or requests for a complete script doing something vaguely defined. And I tend to ignore them.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re^2: Stupid stumpers and good questions by Jenda
in thread Stupid stumpers and good questions by ELISHEVA

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