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RE: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and whiners
At 01:28 PM 6/23/99 , Colocator User wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from Colocator User <minivend@twu.net>
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>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?
Looks like you want everything for free. It appears that you're out of
luck here... I would suggest finding another software solution (such as
writing one yourself, documenting it well, and giving it away) and quickly
removing yourself from this list.
>
>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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