BrowserUk,
Conversely, I've never seen you offer any Perl code as a solution. Nary a once. Maybe I just missed it?

I couldn't possibly imagine this to be true so I set out to prove you wrong. While you are in fact wrong, I was quite suprised by the results.

sundialsvc4 has been a monk since 2007-10-29 (3.25 years) and has posted 1148 nodes in that time. Of those, 1073 (93.5%) are replies. Of those, 141 (13.1%) have code tags. In other words, about 1 in 8 response have code. Here is the interesting thing - what I found surprising. Of the 141 with code tags, 89 (63.1%) were made in a one month window (2009-02-26 to 2009-03-25). In fact, of the 444 replies made in 2010, only 18 (4%) had code tags. Rather than being 1 in 8 responses it dropped to 1 in 25. Of the 94 replies so far in 2011 - none have code tags.

I want to be clear, I didn't gather this information to attack sundialsvc4. I honestly thought you were letting your feelings blind you to honest contributions. Disclaimers: The presence of a code tag doesn't mean the presence of actual code. While I excluded root nodes (non-replies), there isn't an easy way to exclude replies to yourself. I certainly didn't review all 1073 responses to subjectively quantify value and one should not draw the conclusion that because no code was provided that the response wasn't useful.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^5: [OT]: threading recursive subroutines. by Limbic~Region
in thread [OT]: threading recursive subroutines. by BrowserUk

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