Re: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't do ja ck , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?

[allan deleon <allan@instantsoft.com>]

Wow...

I believe there is a Minivend documentation  project going on
right now... so, since you're such an advocate on open source,
why not contribute some of your time and help document it. Oh I forgot,
you make $10 an hour so I guess you can't waste any time working on
open source projects eh? Guess what, brother --  Mike Heins probably
has a lot more things he'd rather do than waste time writing a "Minivend
for Dummies" for people like you who refuse to read through the existing
documentation and experiment on their own. Puhlezzzz... take your whining
somewhere else.

I, too, will redirect all flames to /dev/null =).

Colocator User wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Colocator User <minivend@twu.net>     ******
>
> I make $10 an hour. Do I look like I can spare $15,000? I'm an advocate
> of the open-source world and I hate American capitalism (the sort of
> thinking that produced the idea of a $15,000 piece of software). And it
> bothers me when people who produce good software produce horrible
> documentation. If you care enough to produce good software, care enough to
> document it well, or have someone do it for ya, surely?
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, mike wrote:
>
> > Hmm.. I'm not going to answer him.  Sorry, but I take flames to this
> > group personally.  I say let him pay 15 grand for a commercial program
> > that does what this one does.
> >
> > vandy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colocator User [mailto:minivend@twu.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 1:16 PM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't do jack
> > , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Colocator User
> > <minivend@twu.net>     ******
> >
> > Hey there MiniVend gurus--
> >
> >       Just started with the program, and I'm trying to utilize a Perl
> > script I've written from within a MiniVend page. The [perl] tag is a
> > cruel
> > joke; you can't use backticks (due to that stupid Safe module, which I'd
> > rather not turn off if I don't have to) or even print statements
> > (!!!!!);
> > all you can use seems to be setting and returning variables, which is
> > unacceptable. I need more than that!
> >
> >       I tried to define the Perl I want as a user tag. It did squat.
> > First of all, the syntax listed on the Web site for defining a user tag
> > is
> > horrible-- MiniVend chokes on it when starting up. Secondly, when I
> > finally DID find a way of arranging the damned curly-braces so that it
> > wouldn't puke on my user tag, the user tag did SQUAT!
> >
> >       They say the best way to learn is by example. Could someone give
> > me an example-- or more than one example-- of a way to display the
> > output
> > of:
> >
> > print "Hi there";
> >
> > ...in a MiniVend page?
> >
> >       Flames or "RTFM"s will be passed on to /dev/null. Please give me
> > a
> > real answer.
> >
> >       Incidentally, the MiniVend FAQ ***SUCKS***. Perhaps something
> > more
> > like the Perl FAQ is in order-- where it's more of an "all questions
> > we've
> > been asked that have a simple--or even a not-so-simple-- answer" list
> > than
> > a "frequently asked questions" list. The MiniVend FAQ only answers the
> > simplest of stupid questions...
> >
> >
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