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whine, whine, whine... (Score:2, Insightful)

by jhi (318)

"this sucks"
"this just plain sucks"
"TPJ is dead"
"Perl will die"
"we are all doomed" "the end is nigh"
Would you all stop whining and actually do something about it? Like write more good articles to TPJ so that CMP sees that Perl is viable business? If you have expertise in some other field, say, bioinformatics, economics, linguistics, write also to your own specialist magazines and publications, extolling the virtues and benefits of Perl. But please stop whining.
- Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
  
  by jjohn (22)
  
  But Mr. Jark, I like to whine!
  - Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
    
    by jhi (318)
    
    Then write an article about how to use XML-RPC in Perl to whine expertly and in great detail and length?
    - Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
      
      by jjohn (22)
      
      Jesus, Jarkko, haven't I done that enough? [marian] ;-)
      - Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
        
        by pudge (1)
        
        jjohn, your URL is broken.
        
        jhi, please don't tell people to not "whine." Yes, encourage them to act, but don't ask them to not express their unhappiness at such an obviously unfortunate turn of events. Expressing displeasure is not de facto whining, and I see very little whining going on here.
        
        There's no problem with people being unhappy, expressing it, AND doing something about it.
        
        Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
        
        by jhi (318)
        
        > There's no problem with people being unhappy, expressing it
        
        Expressing your unhappiness helps no-one and no-thing, so why waste your energy on doing it goes beyond my understanding.
        
        > doing something about it.
        
        We'll see. Usually the doers/pure whiners ratio is close to zero.
        
        Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
        
        by pudge (1) on 2001.11.01 16:52 (#1774) Homepage Journal
        
        Expressing your unhappiness helps no-one and no-thing
        
        I couldn't disagree more.
        
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        Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
        
        by jhi (318)
        
        I'm not here to satisfy your urge for arguing, sorry, nice try :-)
        
        Re:whine, whine, whine... (Score:1)
        
        by pudge (1)
        
        Heh, if I wanted an argument, I would have said more than simply "I disagree." :-) I would have presented support for why I think expressing unhappiness about the matter is helpful and useful. However, I don't think anyone here is going to be swayed one way or another, and we all have more important things to do.