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Learning from experienceby bronto (Priest) |
on Feb 14, 2003 at 18:08 UTC ( [id://235348]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
...and when I say experience I mean, in this specific case, XP. It's a few days I wrote my 150th node, and I'd like to make some consideration about my XP and about XP in general. In general, a high XP value doesn't mean you are a Perl Guru: it simply means that what you say and write had a good consideration by other monks. This is important. The name XP is a bit misleading actually, and people doesn't get immediately what XP really means. To demonstrate it let's take a walk on my own nodes: I have an XP of 1459 today. But how did I get it? Oh, well: on the podium there are three meditations of mine, that don't talk about Perl: the first in particular is sort of a joke. To get a node about Perl I have to go to the fourth place, where I ask about Perl 5.8.0 and Attribute::Handlers. Ask, I said, so no Perl wisdom from me yet... My best answer that contains Perl code is only at the 7th place, and only three answers with Perl code are in the top ten. So, if you were thinking that XP really means Perl experience, just forget it. XP is actually a mix of how a kind person you appear and how a smart Perl programmer you are. Maybe you would rather call it consideration, but unfortunately the word is already there for another use in the monastery. But maybe now the concept of what XP is is now clearer to you. With love --bronto ...and happy Valentine's Day! The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
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