Re^3: But I WANT to do everything in Perl!

Jeez, "muddled" and "illogical".

Yeah, both.

And I was gunning for "thoughtful" or "inquisitive."

If you truly want to be "inquisitive", you need to ask questions. That is what "inquisitive" means. Your article was not "inquisitive" because it did not ask questions; it mostly made a bunch of pronouncements about the ideas you already had.

There was one legitimate question in your article, which I answered. Otherwise, it was not inquisitive at all.

Hope this helps; better luck next time.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

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Re^4: But I WANT to do everything in Perl! by gnoitall (Novice) on Oct 12, 2005 at 20:53 UTC
If you truly want to be "inquisitive", you need to ask questions. That is what "inquisitive" means. No, I think InfiniteSilence was going for "inquisitive", as in "Inquisition". You know, chain you to a rack and guide you to an auto de fe regarding The True Perl Faith. Sigh. FWIW, I've long held the opinion that language proselytization is pointless. (How long? Since I was mature enough to think rather than reacting viscerally.) I find it interesting that you're rather insistently labeled by the zealots in this discussion as a "Perl programmer", which is a label you seem to strenuously avoid. An earlier commentator compared your position to a framing carpenter being peristently tagged as a "hammer wielder". It called to my mind the ancient adage, "When all you have is a hammer everything begins to look like a nail."	[reply]

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Re^4: But I WANT to do everything in Perl!
by gnoitall (Novice) on Oct 12, 2005 at 20:53 UTC

If you truly want to be "inquisitive", you need to ask questions. That is what "inquisitive" means.

No, I think InfiniteSilence was going for "inquisitive", as in "Inquisition". You know, chain you to a rack and guide you to an auto de fe regarding The True Perl Faith.

Sigh. FWIW, I've long held the opinion that language proselytization is pointless. (How long? Since I was mature enough to think rather than reacting viscerally.)

I find it interesting that you're rather insistently labeled by the zealots in this discussion as a "Perl programmer", which is a label you seem to strenuously avoid. An earlier commentator compared your position to a framing carpenter being peristently tagged as a "hammer wielder". It called to my mind the ancient adage, "When all you have is a hammer everything begins to look like a nail."

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