# from Bill Ward
# on Thursday 06 December 2007 16:23:
>Cute experiment, but I REALLY hope nobody tries releasing useful
>modules to CPAN that depend on this...
Cute comment, but I really hope nobody puts any stock in it. What skin
is it off of your nose if a useful module uses something you're afraid
of?
If you're going to nay-say an experiment on general grounds that
it's "too whacky" without pointing to any specific bug, that's not
useful. You're basically saying that "the current way" is the best and
we should stop trying to innovate.
If you're concerned about useful, try cleaning up one of the hundreds
(thousands?) of useful perl programs and modules which are inflexible
and inextensible due to poor APIs, overuse of global variables, lack of
modularization, too-big subroutines, and non-use of various other
"modern" concepts.
You won't have to look far. If you're having trouble spotting them, I
would be happy to send you a list.
--Eric
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"Everything goes wrong all at once."
--Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law
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