Re: A Cautionary tale for Newbies "Monks don't bite"

I think it's due to the experience system

Partly. I think it's also partly due to some of the people who got involved rather early, in the formitive stages. Several of the people who've been active on Perlmonks for rather a long time are not only very knowledgeable about Perl, but also interested in seeing other programmers pick up and use the language. (One person in particular springs to mind as having been a major advocate of the language from very early.) When the experts who have been around forever are polite, it sets the tone for the people who come along later, because these are the "community leaders" that they respect.

Sanity? Oh, yeah, I've got all kinds of sanity. In fact, I've developed whole new kinds of sanity. Why, I've got so much sanity it's driving me crazy.

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Re^2: A Cautionary tale for Newbies "Monks don't bite" by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 15, 2006 at 14:17 UTC
I think it's also partly due to some of the people who got involved rather early, in the formitive stages. That makes sense. Once a community is established, you get the "birds of a feather" effect. After all, you humans (Heh!) do tend to hang out in groups with similar taste/style/etc. (OK...I think I'm taking this pseudonym just a little too far!) I wonder if it started at Larry? After all, there are quite a few nice languages to play with out there, but in my experience, while Perl has ugly syntax (e.g. `@{$foo{$gnord}}`) it has a great community surrounding it (CPAN, PerlMonks,...). Many times, when I have to get something done quick, I first check CPAN to see if it's already 90% done for me. If so, I start writing it in Perl. Otherwise, I then look at the problem to see if hashes/regex/... are going to be helpful. If so, I again start writing it in Perl. Otherwise, I start coding in C/C++ (which is what I still think in). --roboticus (Who, in fact is pink and squishy under the gears and wires...) 2006-04-17 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines Original title: 'A Cautionary tale for Newbies Â“Monks donÂ’t biteÂ”'	[reply] [d/l]

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by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 15, 2006 at 14:17 UTC

I think it's also partly due to some of the people who got involved rather early, in the formitive stages.

That makes sense. Once a community is established, you get the "birds of a feather" effect. After all, you humans (Heh!) do tend to hang out in groups with similar taste/style/etc. (OK...I think I'm taking this pseudonym just a little too far!)

I wonder if it started at Larry? After all, there are quite a few nice languages to play with out there, but in my experience, while Perl has ugly syntax (e.g. @{$foo{$gnord}}) it has a great community surrounding it (CPAN, PerlMonks,...). Many times, when I have to get something done quick, I first check CPAN to see if it's already 90% done for me. If so, I start writing it in Perl. Otherwise, I then look at the problem to see if hashes/regex/... are going to be helpful. If so, I again start writing it in Perl. Otherwise, I start coding in C/C++ (which is what I still think in).

--roboticus

(Who, in fact is pink and squishy under the gears and wires...)

2006-04-17 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'A Cautionary tale for Newbies Â“Monks donÂ’t biteÂ”'

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