Ok, I haven?t been using this site for long, but I have noticed that ppl get easily annoyed if a question is asked which is not perl related. I'm new to Internet programming, Perl, and Cgi, and personally all these areas go hand in hand. When I'm learning something new which I wish to program in Perl, I'm always getting stuck on the "non-Perl related" stuff 'cos I cant seek help here. So for example if I wanted to program a shopping cart, then I cant ask someone to help me understand how a certain aspect of cookie transfers works, if I'm having difficulty understanding it. Even though I know most monks could explain it to me.
A lot of you guys are programming for years and many are professionals in this area. I'm not; I'm just a guy who likes to design WebPages, now and again. I just think this site could become so much more inclusive if another forum was opened up where Perl Programmers could ask software related questions.
What do you think?
I've a felling I could come back to this site tomorrow and discover that this post has a reputation of -1,000,000. But anyway, I'll still think the point was worth making.

edited: Mon Aug 5 22:11:59 2002 by jeffa - title change (was: OT: Does this site need an)

In reply to OT: Does this site need an Off-Topic area? by Poblachtach32

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