"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> So, with regard to that, I was thinking that maybe a neat idea would be to go
> through ALL of the keywords and major macros and functions and make a single
> giant file with nothing but illustrative code examples.

That is a GREAT idea! I'd be interested in helping with that initiative.

> Yeah - there are those elitist types everywhere.   "This is for me, but not for
> thee."  And they hate me, because I have a very "F U, I won't do what you tell
> me" attitude, and learn how to do everything that they can, and then some.  And
> find out all of the ways that they are wrong, and discover ways to do it better
> than they ever could.

Rage on brother (i.e., Against the Machine), and amen, I feel exactly where
you're coming from.

> I get a very distinct sense of what you're talking about over on
> StackExchange/StackOverflow, where people are unnecessarily condescending, and
> you can't even post questions or replies unless you have a certain reputation...
> Linux seems to have a bit of that as well.   "Well, you're using linux, so you
> should ALREADY know how to...."  Yeah, lemme just pull that regular expression
> out of my nether region and plug it into awk, pipe it through grep, and then....

Now you're just killing me with your snarky regex, awk and grep - I literally
laughed out loud! Because it's all so true...

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