Ok, first off, I agree that abigail can be rather terse, and at times at least seem mean. But really, that is not the point, I didn't start coming to this site to make friends, I came here to learn Perl, and from what I've seen Abigail is good, though not infallible of course, but if Abigail says something is wrong, I know that at least it's worth my time to do some research into the matter. If your or anyone else find abigail too abrasive then ignore everything but the code or the comments on code, or whatever happens to be the core of the post. That's what I tend to do, If I think Abigail has been excessively rude, I downvote, and if I think theres some particularly useful Gem in the post, then I upvote, other than that, I pay little attention to the fluff of the post (which is usually very little where abigail is involved) and look for the true content.
And as far as merlyn goes, it is much the same thing, often arrogant, but nearly as often has a very valid point and/or suggestion. And for one, what do you mean by implying that their's something wrong with his website, true, it's a very basic layout, it doesn't dazzle (and thank the gods doesn't have any flash), but that isn't the point, even on a slow dialup, I can quickly view the next page, the code itself is rather clean, and looks, if not perfectly W3C compliant, it's much better than what I see on a lot of "professional" sites. To reiterate, the navigation is simple and functional, and the content (that would be that part that actually matters) is easily accessible. And as far as the perl code shown on the site, it is relatively simple, as the task at hand dictates, which is a good thing, what use would it be to show someone how to do something if they couldn't understand it. And finally, What in blue blazes does HTML have to do with Perl? Yah, you commonly get to perl CGI scripts through HTML and perl CGI scripts very often generate HTML. Do you expect a chef to be able to make good spoons because they are often used to eat what the chef makes? (not to imply that a chef can't make spoons, there's probably at least some who can make a pretty mean spoon )
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