I'll take your word on it with the years of experience that you've had in perl'ing. But I think the statement that I was trying to make, that most of the questions that we are asked in SoPW/Q&A, are "uninteresting" or "unchallenging" as they seem to represent uses of perl that a majority of perl programmers are involved, and thus already should have a good base of knowledge to go on (eg FAQs, USENET, PM archives). Looking at the current front page of SoPW, there's only 1 out of 10 questions that I would consider to be 'challenging' to find the answer for, in that I would expect to learn something new when helping this user out; the rest I can answer with basic knowledge.
And that is the atrophy that the original thread here to aiming at; there's too many 'uninteresting' yet still useful questions being asked that doesn't help those on the high end of the XP scale. I have no problem answering the uninteresting questions, as long as I have the oppurtunity to learn from others on more advanced questions, and while I still find that this is happening for me, I can see how others a bit more advanced in perl would find the lack of new knowledge deterimental to the PM experience. Which is why I think having Articles aimed beyond the beginning user would be a perfect addition to beat the PM atrophy.
Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com
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