On Monday 01 Mar 2010 19:31:15 Shawn H Corey wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Well, Matt S. Trout shared his sentiments about "I cannot use CPAN" here: > > > > http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-cpan/ > > Well, Matt is wrong. You can't always use CPAN. Yes, you can set it up > so you can use it in development, but that doesn't mean you can do it in > production. I have worked in places where the policy was no software > that's not approved by the sysadmins and approval of a single module may > take 6 to 18 months. They're even very strict about downloading a copy > and cut & paste. A foolish policy, kinda like, our horse will never get > sick from bad grain if we never feed it but managers _always_ know best. > ;)
Heh, tell me about it. Medium-to-large businesses shoot themselves in the foot by incorporating these god-awful policies and becoming very non-agile. Then they wonder why startups with much fewer resources can often easily out- compete them. I read somewhere (Paul Graham I think, but I can no longer find it) that as companies grow they adopt more and more rules and regulations after learning from mistakes they made in the past. But these rules prevent a lot of legitimate actions and in turn make the company much less agile. And sometimes they impose these rules on start-ups that they buy. It was later compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act which killed the IPOs in .us and was another regulation that was passed and which had unwanted side- effects. In any case, such antagonism towards using third-party code will make the person working for such companies beyond help and doomed anyway you look at it, so we can ignore it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
