From: Jeff Westman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guay_Jean-Sbastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
b) As new need arises in your program, using a module gives you
access to other functionality which you would have to (again) write
yourself if you were not unsing a module.
But would you agree, that at least
--As off Friday, December 12, 2003 7:25 AM -0800, Jeff Westman is
alleged to have said:
So, why is it that most of the solutions represented in this group
tend to point to a CPAN module when the code for it isn't that
hard (usually) to write? I'm not sure if using modules is a matter
of
Well, I'm a professional Perl developer. I have also been in your position
before Jeff.
I can say that it is just a best practice to always use a module. It's
just smart to reuse modular code.
1) it saves building work
2) it's already tested
3) it's already documented
4) in many cases it's
Jeff Westman wrote:
Question for this group. And please don't flame me for asking this.
Often times one writes in, asking how to do something fairly trivial,
such as a date conversion from a non-standard format, or doing something
else not require too much overhead. When asked for advice,
Guay_Jean-Sébastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These answers are of course my own experience, but may be significant to
understand the bigger picture. I reorder your points a bit in my reply :-)
No problem :)
So, why is it that most of the solutions represented
in this group tend to point
On Dec 12, 2003, at 7:25 AM, Jeff Westman wrote:
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p0: most of the cool arguments have been generally made.
my kvetching here will therefore be the less cool stuff.
So, installing a module is out-of-the-question.
In my case, I am basically stuck with the perl [5.8]
default libraries and
On Dec 12, 2003, at 8:23 AM, Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote:
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Perhaps the real Perl distribution
differs from ActiveState Perl on what modules it includes by default?
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I think the OP has the 'imaginary' Perl distribution.
Cold out of the wrappers the default installation
for various vendor
On Dec 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM, drieux wrote:
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Yes, and No. Again the presumption here is that we
are discussing at the 'professional obligations level'
and not at the academic/hobby level.
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flame
Drieux! You KankerousBoilOnTheBottomSideOfYourSithLord!
That whole academic v. professional
