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Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Trond Michelsen <mike@crusaders.no> whis pered: | You don't need to know any of the modules in CPAN to use perl, but once | you learn how to use search.cpan.org, your productivity will most | probably increase dramatically. Just like knowing how to use the | documentation will make you more productive. The problem with this philosophy, is that you are talking about a fullblown software development situation. You are probably correct if I want to write a huge application. If I just want to write a quick script to (for example) do disk usage reporting. This was my first perl script, almost 10 years ago now. I was able to go from 0 (picking up Camel1) to having this script completed and working in 2 days. I just randomly chose 4 modules from the Security category. Two were dead links (User::pwent, User::grent), one (MD5) was a wrapper that sent me elsewhere (Digest::). It has both a functional interface and an OO interface. The last has only an OO interface (Authen::ACE). While I was there I (hypothetically) decided I wanted to write a web page. I searched for Web. 112 packages in 24 distributions. To look through all that is going to take a lot more time than I want to spend on writing a web page. I'll just do it by hand. I was also thinking of doing some CGI. 369 modules in 81 distributions. 75% (approximately) have no synopsis listed, so I have no idea except by name what they do. -sppThread Previous | Thread Next