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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many things in life are a matter of
perspective. Mine changed significantly when I read an email regarding the
function of this list. I subscribed to this list at least two years
ago, maybe more, after writing my first few perl scripts (Like making
command line amp play random mp3s continuously and a fairly
complex auto-player for an online game). I signed up so that I could
monitor threads and pick up some useful pointers over time without having to
wait until I had a problem to drop in and expect answers. I picked this
list because it was the first local perl user list that I found. Perl
Mongers doesn't detail their charter and I assumed this was a good place to ask
newbie kinds of questions if I needed someplace to ask them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After reading in more detail about what happens at
PM meetings and reading an email about this being more of a meeting and agenda
list, I realize that I have been thinking of this list incorrectly. I
realize now that the sometimes months of no threads and the only help related
ones usually being quite complex, are because this is not a help desk. I
appologise for the pieces of my complaints that were centered around the quality
of help recieved.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Additionally, I appologise to Tkil, the metaphor
war was uncalled for(try saying that 3 times fast!) and I didn't mean you
explicitly, I meant the general response. It was gracious for you to write
so thorough an example after I was unpleasent to you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(And just so you know, many people came to your
defense out of list)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For the record, I have read the core O'reilly books
and keep them around for reference, however, I don't use perl every day and
sometimes things get fuzzy. Sometimes it is difficult to find information
that you guys take for granted. For example, when I didn't know what qw()
was. Try finding it documented in an O'reilly book, used extensivly, not
documented. (I didn't ask questions like that here, I found them on my
own). I just recently learned of perldoc and perlfunc. To my
recollection, they aren't listed in any of the books I've read, or
suggested on any of the sites I've been to. What I would like to know is
where I can find a table of the subjects available via perldoc. `perldoc
perltoot` is not intuative and I think its strange when people ask why I haven't
looked there, What I would like to know is How do I know its there? Where
do I learn that if I want to know about OOP, I want perltoot, not perloop or
ooperl?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jason White</FONT></DIV>
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