in reply to Re: Re: Tried and True CPAN Modules
in thread Tried and True CPAN Modules
Imagine running into a bug in a CPAN module and not having to file a bug report, simply hopping onto the site and branching in a fix with a comment, and adding a test case.
Imagine running a class for programming students, and being able to assign homework as walking through certain CPAN modules categorising algorithms or patterns.
Imagine having 20 minutes without anything to do, hopping onto the site and refactoring a tiny mess in a single function in a random module into something clean and elegant.
Imagine a site where sections of code have been voted especially clean, or especially messy and deserving of attention, so that rather than avoid using them or reimplementing from scratch, they can be bit-by-bit cleaned up and refactored.
Imagine a site where common code across many modules is regularly identified and abstracted into a common module, slowly building up a pool of best-of-breed module support code created and reviewed by many, used in many modules. No more hackish reimplementations, just a slowly expanding core of solid code.
Imagine contributing a module and watching it grow and stabilise every day as people from across the world spend a little bit of their time commenting and cleaning and refactoring.
Wouldn't it be cool? :)
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Re: The Core
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 19, 2003 at 15:56 UTC | |
Re: The Core
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 19, 2003 at 18:17 UTC | |
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