Re^2: Discovering Esoteric Meanings With Perl Part 2 -- The FOX Network

Well. What is your point? This used Perl in a pretty clever way. The section this code has been posted to is called "Cool Uses ..." -- not "More Useful, Practical Uses ..." You guys sound like you actually work for FOX.

"Oh no! We've been exposed!!! Let's ridicule this person so no one can figure out that FOX is evil!"

Get over yourself! Lighten up! Refactor! Just stop being boring geek wankers who think you know everything. Wow, you mastered one programming language. Congratulations! You are still a geek.

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Re^3: Discovering Esoteric Meanings With Perl Part 2 -- The FOX Network by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 20, 2009 at 20:22 UTC
I think you'll find, if you can see round that shield of anonymity, that most postings to Cool Uses For Perl are of general interest - in that, the poster got the title spot on - esoteric: understood or liked by only a small number of people I know nothing about FOX (but wonder whether it might have something to do with 20th C Fox & all that) and assert less about its being evil - my point was that the OP, doesn't, IMO, class as a 'Cool Use For Perl'. Wow, you mastered one programming language. ... hmmm, I suspect I've forgotten more languages than you've mastered - perl is merely the latest weapon I'm attempting to add to my arsenal. As for mastering perl ... had you been around here and paying attention for long enough, you should, by now, have realised that very few achieve the dizzy heights of mastering such a complex and because of that, fun language. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^4: Discovering Esoteric Meanings With Perl Part 2 -- The FOX Network by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2009 at 12:07 UTC
That is not the reason why I chose the word esoteric, whose true definition is along the lines of: understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions. belonging to the select few. private; secret; confidential. (of a philosophical doctrine or the like) intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group: the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras. If you don't like it, then you can choose not to read it. If you insist on debating then you should get some real facts instead of making up your own. Your feeble attempts to suppress this knowledge have failed. "Liked by only a small number of people ..." if that were really true, you wouldn't even need bother to comment.	[reply]