Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: General programming questions are not appropriate for comp.lang.* Message-ID: <12052:Dec223:06:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 2 Dec 90 23:06:40 GMT References: <2967:Dec122:39:3790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <109688@convex.convex.com> <1990Dec2.200811.8581@iwarp.intel.com> Organization: IR Lines: 30 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. > In fact, I've already told Dan in private email (for > which he flamed me back) Hardly. In fact, before you cut off communication, I asked very politely if you would explain what the parenthesis-matching thread had to do with the Perl language. I'm sorry you didn't reply. > Please keep off-charter postings off this newsgroup! I agree entirely. Please keep off-charter postings off this newsgroup! That way people responding to the postings won't be flamed for refusing to preserve the delusion implied by your mistake. ---Dan P.S. In case you're not sure, ``delusion'' here means the delusion that just because something is written in Perl means that it has anything to do with the Perl language. This is written using a natural language, but that doesn't make it appropriate for a linguistics group... Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com