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From:
Trond Michelsen
Date:
May 18, 2001 09:53
Subject:
Re: Perl, the new generation
Message ID:
20010518174045.P8961@crusaders.no
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:24:45AM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> 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+

I don't agree with that interpretation.

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.

> modules in CPAN.  You are also saying that OOP is now required, because
> many/most CPAN modules use OOP.

Well, using an OO-module is in many cases as easy as cut'n'pasting the
synopsis from that modules documentation. This requires that the user
bothers to read the documentation though.

-- 
  // Trond Michelsen
\X/  mike@crusaders.no
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