Freenode's programming language communities in particular are very bad.
##C: "go fuck yourself, here's an uninformative manpage"
##C++: "go fuck yourself, no, really just go fuck yourself, also here's a link to the isocpp documents"
#python: "just use twisted"
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@Elizafox I've found the regex one too be pretty good in helping provided you're starting from something that at least partially works; otherwise I end up rubber ducking it
@calvin They won't help you at all unless you've shown you've put effort into it, which sucks when you have no idea where to begin