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Re: Which modules provide highest return-on-investment?

by GrandFather (Saint)
on Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23 UTC ( [id://716399]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Which modules provide highest return-on-investment?

That depends a whole lot on what you intend to use Perl for. Nice thing about CPAN is that there are really good modules for most things you might want to do.

If you don't have a nice IDE and don't feel inclined to learn to use the debugger then Data::Dump::Streamer or Data::Dumper are good friends.

GetOpt::Long can save a bunch of time if you are writing command line based scripts and Tk is pretty good for quick and dirty GUI based stuff.

A quick trawl through a bunch of my scripts shows a pretty high hit rate for File::Find, Mime::Lite, Date::Manip, List::Util and a whole bunch more. I guess really, being able to use CPAN is the place where it's worth investing your initial time.

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Re^2: Which modules provide highest return-on-investment?
by missingthepoint (Friar) on Oct 18, 2008 at 02:58 UTC

    Just went to install 'Mime::Lite'... and discovered it's actually MIME::Lite.

    email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'
    'Under no circumstances should you program the way I say to because I say to; program the way you think expresses best what you're trying to accomplish in the program. And do so consistently and ruthlessly.' --Rob Pike
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