in reply to OT: What a hideous sofa! (Re: Parsing with HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML...)
in thread Parsing with HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML on OpenSuse Linux 11.4 Milestone 1

someone walking into someones home and exclaiming "Geez! What an ugly sofa! You should buy a new one!" All the while, you're wearing a burnt-orange shirt and a lime-green suit with purple socks.

I don't care if you're wearing a 10,000$ Armani suit, you don't go into someone's house and start criticising his sofas. I can take criticism, but put the limit in sofas.

"Principle of Least Astonishment: Any language that doesn’t occasionally surprise the novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert..

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Re^2: OT: What a hideous sofa! (Re: Parsing with HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML...)
by wfsp (Abbot) on Sep 26, 2010 at 08:44 UTC
    Sofa? Sofa! It's a settee if you don't mind!