Re: Some advice on another's scripts

[peterbrown]

As the author in question (grimace), I feel obligated to respond.

I do want to correct what I perceive to be a misunderstanding of my intent, when Mr. Muskrat states:

"Now that he has told me that he does not want to fix his code until he is ready, what should I do? Have I done enough by letting him know? Or should I post his URL as a warning to others? "

I don't think I meant "I'm not going to fix it until I'm good and ready and to heck with the consequences." I'm very concerned about the viability of my scripts. If there's a serious and urgent flaw, I want to fix them immediately.

I do, however, have to schedule things, since I have a day job.

I responded to your email immediately, Mr. Muskrat, because I AM concerned. In fact, based on your email, I immediately posted a page at:

http://worldcommunity.com/opensource/programming.methods.html

My goal is to become a better and better programmer. As a working programmer, the last thing I want is to be considered a 'hack'. I profoundly appreciate everyone's advice, and will do my best to improve.

Oh... and in response to a post above about html templates -- FutureSQL is built around an extensive template system, so that the code is separated from the html.

Thanks :-)

Peter F. Brown

[frankus]

I'll confess, my sympathies and respect go to peterbrown.
It takes courage to join a debate and clarify your point amongst strangers.
I hope that this incident will not colou?r your perception of Perlmonks.

It seems wrong to throw someone's code to the vultures, for is it not writ :
"let he who is without better things to do, stick his nose in where it is not wanted"?
...and besides we've not finished with Matt's Script Archives yet!

AFAIK we're only here to answer Perl questions and be a community, we don't need to drum up trade.

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Brother Frankus.

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