Re: [RANT] Should we try to keep compatibility with old perl5s?

[email protected] (Rocco Caputo) Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:28:03 -0400

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On Aug 17, 2018, at 10:26, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:19:26 -0500
> Andy Lester <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I suggest that trying to optimize away complaining is a losing battle.  You
>> will never make everyone happy.
> 
> Good advice, but see the first item of
> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/02/19/seven-steps-to-remarkable-customer-service/
> and the story at the bottom of http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Devtools/ides.html .

"But when you think a little harder you can usually find a deeper solution: a way to prevent this particular problem from ever happening again."

I agree that complaining is a significant problem.  I look forward to hearing your final solution for it.

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Rocco Caputo <[email protected]>