in reply to s/PERL/Perl/g on new posts

No, please don't. It's a useful measure of the poster's level of clue. I'm far more likely to help someone who has taken to trouble to learn the name of the language they are trying to use.

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Re^2: s/PERL/Perl/g on new posts
by bluto (Curate) on Aug 01, 2005 at 15:47 UTC
    By definition, if I ask for help with a problem, then I'm am clueless (at least wrt the problem). What I care about more than that is: Will they learn from my answer? I don't think their usage of "PERL" determines this.

    Some folks are just so brand spanking new and eager to learn that we don't need to kill their enthusiasm with a witty diatribe of PERL vs Perl vs perl. If they have any learning potential they'll figure this useless bit of trivia out eventually, and if not they'll leave PM eventually and end up doing something easier like flipping burgers.

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      Oops... looks like I missed the <joke> ... </joke> tags around that post. I'll try to remember them in future.

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      <http://www.dave.org.uk>

      "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club."
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        Humor, on a Monday morning, without some kind of tag? You trolled me into being clueless while talking about cluelessness. Well done. :-)
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Re^2: s/PERL/Perl/g on new posts
by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 01, 2005 at 21:21 UTC

    You mean I shouldn't have /msgd the author of a recent node asking for s/PREL/Perl/?

    Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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      Of course you should have. Maybe the OP wanted shampoo (Prell) not code help ;)

      Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.
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        Damn those asynchronous fingers! :-)

        Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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