OT?: Emailing from within filepro

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu May 27 08:07:03 PDT 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:14:27AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> If you want to see -real- CEW III type behaviour, pay a visit to
> comp.lang.perl.misc someday and post code with -formatting- that they
> don't approve of, where there is absolutely -no- possibility of syntactic
> destructiveness.  You have -no- idea until you've had that particular
> dubious pleasure.  They'll entirely ignore the actual technical issue until
> you clean up your formatting, period.  I kid you not.  They'll refuse to
> read it and simply say the formatting gives them too much of a headache to
> read, even though it's syntactically correct (and actually more explicit
> than looser code).  I'm nowhere close to that level of behaviour, but I
> invite you to experience it firsthand someday if you want free
> "entertainment".  Truer purists I have not seen the likes of.

dejagoo://!  dejagoo://!?!

Cheers,
-- jra
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