You'll note that I gave you a ++, since I did find that your post was interesting. My whole point was to make sure that merlyn wasn't being singled out due to his name. I give you the example of the baroque movement as my argument. If you only like baroque because others have said you should like it, then you miss the point. I can say that baroque is crap, but that doesn't diminish its value as an art form.

I recognized early on in your post that you respected merlyn, but I wanted to actually vilify anyone who would simply respect the name without reason. To the point, merlyn has given the community probably much more than he can ever get back, but given the intro to the Llama, I'd guess that we can never fully get as much from the community as he gets.

So, while I was sounding harsh, it was more for the onlookers than anyone else I primarily addressed. It's just my style, I guess. I think what made me branch my reply from your post was the comment about block style. It made me feel like you were approaching from a vanity, instead of the message. Note my first paragraph in the initial response. That was actually the only part that I truly wanted to address to you, but I also felt that if I stated it such that I used examples from your statement that could be misconstrued as simple "hero worship", I would effectively make my point.

After all, we're all just perl hackers.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: On elegant coding... by PsychoSpunk
in thread Just thinking ... by toadi

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