perhaps this could be addressed, in part, by YAPMS (yet another perlmonks section). I'm at a loss as to what it would be called, but its contents would be theory talk. I too find myself wanting a bit more these days. I think I still get a lot out of the Q/A in all its forms here, but I also don't think I'm as good of a perl hacker as many others. I could envision a section where code led discussions can take place. Basically someone posts some hairy code and then it is refined and discussed in CS and formal programming model terms. I see some of this in the Obfuscation side of the house as some of these concepts fall out of a good japh just by accident. Formalizing it could benefit those of us who are approaching the glass cieling and also those who've been making mouth-blowfish on it for a while wondering where the door is.

Of course, it's all fine and good for me to propose this as I'd be the one reading and learning. The real burden would fall on those among us who already know that sort of stuff. The question is, do they want it? And do they feel like populating it for our benefit? I face the same challenges at work where, as scary as it is to me, I am considered one of the most technical people in our group. There have been many times where people in the group have yelled that they need info and or help with topics, and, though I agree that it's a great idea, I end up doing all this work for it and then dealing with the complaints and short-comings when these people do not recieve instant enlightenent from my words. Don't get me wrong, I love sharing my knowledge. But when you're not a teacher by trade, one can only spend so much time teaching and not on the trade which made you a teacher in the first place.

Two side of the coin. Y'all can flip at will =)

"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the
seriousness one had as a child, at play."   --Nietzsche
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