perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature

[gnari]

"Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote in message
news:7fe97cc4.0401242131.22acf485 at posting.google.com...
> Just bumped into another irresponsibility in perl.
>
[snipped rand about File::Basename docs]

> ...
> Why the fuck do i need to know what is version, or examination what??
> Not every morons in this world is using unix with its morinic
> convention of appending things to file names as a versioning system,
> and not every moron in this world need to "exam" things.

you are right. the docs do not seem to address the
needs of morons. there sould be a shorter version of
the docs, specially for morons, with each example
if larger font, repeated 10 times.

> To the rookie programers out there, i advice against learning Perl.
> (i suggest Python instead) Please see
>  http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/perlr.html

thank you

gnari