Re: PerlMonks for newbies?

[Old_Gray_Bear]

How would this be different from the Beginners List at Perl.Org? I'd be a bit worried about diluting the pool of experts responding. There are already a number of Monks who split their attention between the Monastery and the Beginners.

Another thought, one of the things that drew me initially to the Monastery was the lack of 'elitism'. Instead of a terse RTMF to the Truely Clueless, the usual Monkly response is to point them to the 'How To Ask A Question' node. By splitting the Monastery into a Newbie camp and a Oldsters camp, you may end up sending a signal that you don't to -- "my question is not important enough to bother the to the Monks with."

I appreciate your basic idea, to make Perl more accessible, but I'm not comfortable with with your proposed implementation.