[pmwiki-users] physical age is irrelevant

[Radu]

was: Re: making mistakes (was: Re: [pmwiki-users] Deleting dead WikiPages 
and WikiGroups)

At 08:24 PM 3/6/2005, Neil Herber wrote:
>At 2005-03-07  11:54 AM +1100, Algis Kabaila is rumored to have said:
>>Neil, you are a gentelman and a scholar!  A pleasure to know you, even if 
>>only
>>in the cyberspace!

I agree, OldAl. This group is not only extremely knowledgeable and 
friendly, but also much more forgiving and task-oriented than any other 
people I've worked with in the past. Which I find much more important than 
the current functionality of the tool itself. With such people, the 
functionality will get there fast.

>>So what would you suggest to an old guy, who has been learning all his life
>>and will die ignorant, as far as PHP programming is concerned?

Once you've seen their documentation, you'll love it. I can't say I know 
PHP (it's huge, with many libraries and lots of redundancy in both style 
and semantics). But I know how to hack it :)
http://www.php.net/download-docs.php

I suggest the extended html help version. Very usable. You may try the book 
version Neil suggested, but I dare him to find in it anything as fast as 
one can find it in the (extremely well cross-linked and commented) help 
file. So the book's for reading (somehow, what Neil said brought the intro 
to Shrek to mind), but the help file's for using when wondering about exact 
syntax and arguments of a function that sterts with str... something.

Hey, we all die ignorant, but relatively few know it

>>PS: Does Pm reside in Canada too?

Naw, I gather he's Texan :) Hat'n all. With a French name.

Neil:
>And in my opinion, a healthy curiosity about new things keeps you feeling 
>younger even if it does nothing for your chronological age.

Hey, I have an uncle who's 92, been in 3 wars and still consults for the 
local clinic. He's an orthoped..ician? Anyway, bone fixer. Fit as a fiddle. 
If you use it, you don't lose it... or some such.

>Based on that, I would say go for it!

Hear ye.


Cheers,
Radu
(www.monicsoft.net)