Re: Politeness (to one another) is a virtue

"We are not thirteen-year old kids in the locker room. (There are ladies present, for that matter.) We are professional adults who are here to discuss the Perl programming language."

For all I know there are kids, or people who aren't computer professionals here asking for help and advice. I'm convinced that the latter use this site.

Update: for the record, people not being computer professionals shouldn't be a prerequisite for using this site IMHO. People have to begin somewhere, I think here is a better place than most.

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Re^2: Politeness (to one another) is a virtue by cavac (Prior) on Nov 23, 2011 at 21:55 UTC
for the record, people not being computer professionals shouldn't be a prerequisite for using this site IMHO Is this a ~~dagger~~ double negative i see before me? Don't they cancel each other out in the english language (similar to perl)? So wait, that would be... hmhmhmhmoneinmindhmhm... "people being computer professionals should be a prerequisite for using this site". Sorry, just pulling your leg. I just could not resist. Don't use '#ff0000': use Acme::AutoColor; my $redcolor = RED(); All colors subject to change without notice.	[reply]
Re^3: Politeness (to one another) is a virtue by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 23, 2011 at 22:36 UTC
You're absolutely right, I should stop updating posts while talking to people on the train home, clearly it's not working out too well for me. The point I was trying to make was that IMHO this isn't just a site for "professionals".	[reply]
Re^4: Politeness (to one another) is a virtue by cavac (Prior) on Nov 23, 2011 at 23:03 UTC
Come to think of it, implementing the original would put us PerlMonks in the long run at the same level as the dodo: Extinct. Don't use '#ff0000': use Acme::AutoColor; my $redcolor = RED(); All colors subject to change without notice.	[reply]