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• +1 Funny (Score:4, Interesting)

  by mir (51) <xmltwig@gmail.com> on 2003.04.16 7:50 (#19189) Homepage Journal

  I stopped reading after a while, but I really laughed at some parts of this. I just think Schlomo has a solution in search of a problem. If he wants to run a website for beginners, than be it, but there is no need to trash the rest of the community over it.

  Here are some choice quotes from the article:

  Now if she knows how to use E-mail (she may or may not have such a good net-wisdom)

  (remember she got a job as a "a system administrator, CGI programmer, Bio-informatics engineer, hardware designer, QA engineer or whatever")

  It contains some reviews of books (which Mel may not have time to read), a free online book (again, same issue)

  You know, because she needs to learn a new language but has certainly no time to READ about it...

  The question still stands: why do you need a book to learn Perl? Why can't you learn it from the Internet alone?

  Why do you need a book to learn Math?

  The Perl Beginners List In my opinion is a bit useless. It is very high volume, and usually whenever one considers replying to a question, it receives three replies by the time he finished composing it. I was also subscribed and it was too high volume to be effective for me as a "guru". I believe newbies will not be able to handle such volumes either.

  I love this one! The Perl Beginners List is way too helpful! No one reads it anymore, it's way too crowded (attributed to Yogi Fish)

  --
  mirod

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