Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:35:16 -0500
From: Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx <xxxxxxx@xxx.xxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: sophomoric political commentary distracting
To: mjd-perl-faqs-@plover.com
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I went to your web page concerning perl references with the hope that it
would remind me of some syntax I had forgotten.  This is the page:

http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/references.html

While your document is helpful, I stumbled across this childish and
out-of-date political commentary:

"A reference is a scalar value that refers to an entire array or an
entire hash (or to just about anything else.) Names are one kind of
reference that you're already familiar with. Think of the President: a
messy, inconvenient bag of blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to
represent him in a computer program, all you need is the easy,
convenient scalar string Bill Clinton."

If I were as immature as the author of this page, I would simply suggest
that you update the name Bill Clinton and replace it with a giant "W" to
reflect the current president.  However, I don't think that is an
improvement.  I will simply suggest that such adolescent political
commentary makes your site look quite small in the eyes of the perl
community.  Regardless of who Larry Wall voted for in the last
presidential election, I doubt that he would hold such pettiness in high
regard.

Best,

Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx@xxx.xxxx.xx.xx


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