Re: Typing tutor help script needed, please

Throw <throw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A. Sinan Unur wrote:

>> ... please read the
> posting guidelines for this
>> group before posting here.

> Will http://www.faqs.org/faqs/perl-faq/part2/ suffice? Or do you have
> a different, more restrictive FAQ in mind? AFAIK my initial post was
> not contrary to the posting guidelines for this group.

Obviously you have not read the posting guidelines.

Try:

http://www.theone.ru/lists/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg00208.html

> Besides, I had hoped that my subject line should have made it clear
> that I'm a non-programmer looking for a kind volunteer to write a
> script for me to use without me having to learn scripting. Did I fail
> in that? If so, tell me how I should have structured my subject line
> better, please.

Most people here earn their living from writing programmes... why
do you expect to have one written for you for free?

>> The fact that you posted to both Python and Perl groups
>> should have been
> enough of a clue to you that
>> your question was about neither.

> I think the fact that I included the word "wanted" in the in the
> subject line should also have been a clue that I'm not asking a
> question about the language, but that I'm requesting something in the
> language. Again, if I have failed in that, please tell me how you
> would have done it, and perhaps I can learn from you, yes?

No, you did not include the 'wanted' in your subject line.

Axel
.

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