Re: FAQ - Newbie perspective

On Friday 16 March 2001 08:09, you wrote: > I recently asked a pretty simple question on this list ("Finding the > depth"). I could have found out the answer to it in about 10-15 minutes > on my own, thanks to my experience with programming. Still, I posted > the question to this list. Why? > > What did I gain: > > * I saved time. > * I got to see _PHP_code_ for solving my problem. Any solution from > me would have been more C++ than PHP. I got to become more familiar > with thinking the PHP way. > The question is: how many of you think that that posting was "ok" and > how many had to curb the temptation to flame me :-)? I thought it was "ok" and didn't want to flame you - until now when I saw that you "could have found out the answer to it in about 10-15 minutes" on your own (well, not realy). In such a situation the correct thing is IMO to actually spend these 10-15 minutes and then post your code and ask the list how this could be done better. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) Google results 1-10 of about 142,000,000 for e. Search took 0.18 seconds. - http://www.google.com/search?q=e