Posted by dorayme on 08/13/05 04:49

> From: Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au>

>> Just a little hint would have done me. That's
>> all! That would have kept me happy. I did not expect it to go on and
>> on
>> about it. Just a weeny teeny intelligent clue... Silly me!
>
> Just my opinion. Should have said that.

You did no wrong. Your point of view is also quite legitimate. No need
to say it was your opinion. I knew it was not Roger Rabbit's. Newbies
approach new things different to the way non-newbies think newbies
approach things. Newbies can be easily blocked or made to feel uneasy
by the simplest things that do not occur to experts or the pure of
mind.

>> Ah so! I now know what the real purpose of a PHP tutorial is.

>> I wasn't talking about PHP tutorials specifically, but tutorials in
>> general. I wouldn't ever expect a tutorial to teach me the history
>> of
>> whatever it was I was trying to learn, unless it is directly
>> relevant to
>> actually using it. Maybe it's just me.

No, not just you at all. Me too. A hint, a brief word, was what I
wanted, not a history.

>> You're a strange, strange, little man. Or woman. Or whatever you are.
>> :-)

Well, as it happens, I *am* very small. I had to be to get here from a
distant planet inhabited by sexless beings. How big are you?

dorayme

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