I agree with the last bit - there are lots of modules that have one or two useful methods that one can just use intuitively. LWP::Simple comes to mind - it's not the most flexible or robust way of implementing a web client, but it takes seconds to get the hang of it and it's good enough for many situations.
One of the first modules I got to grips with was CGI, and I shudder to think how much time I'd wasted before that doing things by hand that it would have let me do automatically. | [reply] |
You only needed to look at the DBI docs once? Wow... Do I need "fetch," "fetchrow," "fetchrow_array," "fetchrow_arrayref," or something else? It's a useful module, but unless you use it constantly, I can't imagine using it without the docs. | [reply] |
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Ah, I understand now. I read your list as examples of the "also many useful modules."
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