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Anonymous Monk is absolutely right. What you want to talk about is not off topic for SoPW. At least it involves Perl! If it was more off topic than that, you (or a janitor) could put "(OT)" in the title.

What is the sound of Windows? Is it not the sound of a wall upon which people have smashed their heads... all the way through?
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Re^2: New Board for "Development/Environmental" ?
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on May 01, 2010 at 01:38 UTC

    For sake of completeness, that also includes the same sort of topics for Meditations, too, right? The difference being the type of discourse, as in questions in SoPW and answers/musings/RFCs or... well, meditations... in Meditations?

    My first thought was "What's a good mode for coding in Perl and where can I get it?" type questions would be great for SoPW, while "Hey, I have this great .vimrc for Perl coders, take a look!" type statements and related discussion would be more a Meditations node. That is, that a question specifically would go into SoPW and a statement would go into Meditations.

    I vaguely include rhetorical questions with statements, as they're really acting more as statements anyway. I'd also, personally, consider a node which consists of a statement which is providing illumination on a point (rather than asking for clarification for the poster) with a quick follow-up discussion question such as "has this been done better?" or "what do you monks think?" as a statement post, and put that in Meditations rather than SoPW. RFCs for tutorials and modules fit this statement-with-short-follow-up-question mold and are typically Meditations.