Re: To Perl or not to PERL.

I could not agree more. The puerile affectation of making heavy of this distinction is nought more than a ready stick with which bored insiders choose to beat newcomers.

If those whom choose to wield this stick can perceive enough of the newcomers intent to wield it, they understand enough of that intent to ignore it. If they chose to.

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Re^2: To Perl or not to PERL. by Argel (Prior) on Jul 15, 2010 at 22:05 UTC
Or they could never mention it, all the while snickering at the poor clueless fool who keeps using it incorrectly? I think as a new user I would want to know sooner rather than later. Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^3: To Perl or not to PERL. by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 16, 2010 at 00:11 UTC
Hm. Sounds a little like saying that if ginger kids dyed their hair brown, nobody would take the piss out of them.	[reply]
Re^4: To Perl or not to PERL. by Argel (Prior) on Jul 16, 2010 at 19:21 UTC
LOL!!! Just saying that we can appear elitist and aloof up front by pointing it out or we can appear elitist and aloof and maybe cliquish later on by not pointing it out right away. And since people that get kicks out of ridiculing others will do so no matter, we might as well point out the correct spelling/case earlier rather than later. Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]