I must admit that I am probably not as active in the use of my Monk 'powers' as I could be; but TBH things seem to be going really well here and I just don't feel the need to put my size 10s in :) (read: I tend to leave approval and consideration to others).

However, I too have felt that pang of "What has this got to do with Perl - this stupid so-and-so is posting in completely the wrong place". But that is quickly followed by memories of problems that I don't know if they are a Perl problem or not. Often the nature of problems that you can't solve is that you don't know what caused them. So you might not know whether it is the operating system, the browser (or some other GUI), the application server, the network, your hardware, just a typo or a bug in Perl.

OK so a trip to CB is good first choice, but maybe you don't feel you can express your problem adeuqately, or for some other reason CB can't solve your problem. And yet, here you are, amongst a great talent of knowledge and helpfulness - why not ask your question?

Perhaps you are asking for a new section 'Seekers of Monk Wisdom'. Somewhere that posts that have been identified as being solved by a non Perl solution can be moved to by Monks of a certain level. This keeps SoPW 'pure' but allows for the wonderful diversity of PM.

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