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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: General programming questions are not appropriate for comp.lang.*
Message-ID: <10613@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 3 Dec 90 02:54:21 GMT
References: <2967:Dec122:39:3790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <109688@convex.convex.com> <1990Dec2.200811.8581@iwarp.intel.com> <12052:Dec223:06:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <12052:Dec223:06:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: In article <1990Dec2.200811.8581@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: > In article <109688@convex.convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: > [some stuff I agree with]
: > I second this.
: 
: And I'm sure Larry will too, but that won't solve the problem of people
: posting general programming problems to a language-specific group. As I
: said at length in my previous posting, I'm not going to redirect a
: thread to yet another inappropriate group just because I decided that C
: code explained something more effectively than words.

On the contrary.  Much though I despise Dan's use of English as a club
to pummel people into submission, I have to agree with him that we're here
to solve people's problems.  Comparative linguistics is part of the
solution, and must happen in every newsgroup, not just comp.lang.*.
Not only was the comparison between C and Perl instructive (including the
followups, not just the original), but the comparison of how Dan
and the rest of us communicate is also instructive.  Seriously,
I think it's great.  Keep it up.

It's all a big game, anyway, y'know.

Larry


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