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Erez,

Yeah I had not really thought my idea through. And thanks for taking the time to write up the history of this in coherent English.

However I don't believe the hardman bouncer approach has much going for it. There are several more modern languages than perl (such as PHP, Ruby, Python etc). If that attitude is allowed to prevail than surely new people will not find perl a welcoming place and will be driven to those other languages and then perl will surely die.

I have an alternative idea. On the SoPW post entry from one could add a separate mandatory textbox, to describe what one has done to solve the problem. This might do a lot to weed out time wasting questions.

In reply to Re^3: Special place for RTFM posts by SilasTheMonk
in thread Special place for RTFM posts by SilasTheMonk

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