Re: ping Purl Gurl? Beginner Level Perl

In article <5g2ikrF3elq1tU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <SrKdnf6HMKOeQQfbnZ2dnUVZ_uygnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Purl Gurl <purlgurl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ snip ]

This is a good short one page article on perl core buffering,

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

"One page"? Oh, one Web page. Twenty screenfuls here.

Upon reading this, you will understand immediately what processes are
taking place and why "sometimes" buffering is a problem. You really should
read the page; short, quick and easy to understand. This will only take
you about five minutes and you will enjoy a wealth of knowledge.

Well, I did try to read the whole article with some attention,
even though most of it was quite familiar to me. I can't
tell whether you really think I'm almost completely clueless
about basics in my field, or there's something else going on.

One more possibility occurs to me:

If most of what you know about computers and programming comes
from self-teaching and from random encounters on the 'Net with
people whose claims of expertise aren't always justified,
maybe it's not obvious that someone with a PhD in computer
science [1] is unlikely to be ignorant of the information in
some of these readings to which you're helpfully pointing me.

[1] That would be me, yes. Maybe it hasn't come up before.

I have no doubt that there are technical subjects you know a lot
about and I know little if anything. I have little doubt that
there are things many/most people with PhDs in CS know that I
somehow escaped learning about. But ....

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