note moritz <blockquote>Were I to have mentioned a well-publicised recent posting, and similar recent postings of the same general content, which led me to ask about fundamentals... perhaps I would be viewed as being personally critical of the authors, which would have missed the real message...</blockquote> <p>Were you to say what you actually want, we could actually have a constructive discussion. <p>We've had both very fundamental discussions on complexity (which can be found with [Super Search] and external search engines, and to some of which I already linked), and we had many discussions about the complexity of particular algorithms and of particular operations in perl. <p>In my humble opinion both are equally important, but the latter subject is fuller of technical details, and thus for the casual observer less interesting. <p>Was the point you're trying to make that the former (ie more fundamental discussions) should get more weight? <p>(I also don't get the point of covering criticism with the friendly face of a Koan - to me it's like saying "I don't mean to insult you, but ..." and then adding an insult. But that might be just personal preference, or cultural difference.) 760634 760670