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From:
Stephen P. Potter
Date:
May 18, 2001 08:21
Subject:
Re: Perl, the new generation
Message ID:
20010518152450.819AF729E1@belgarath.spotter.yi.org
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> whispere
d:
| All Perl programmers, including lone ones, really should be using CPAN as
| much as they can, which means that the parts of the language needed to use
| CPAN modules are part of the understanding you need.

This comment in and of itself sets a very high bar on perl's usability.  In
essense, you are saying that to use perl you must know (of) the 2500+
modules in CPAN.  You are also saying that OOP is now required, because
many/most CPAN modules use OOP.

-spp
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