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in thread Would you stay with Perl if there were no CPAN?

> What never ceases to amaze me is the number of people who start to code without a quick look through CPAN to see which parts of their project have been implemented before.

A friend of mine just told us at a perlmomgers meeting how bad Data::Dump output is and that he invented a better, more readable and terse format for displaying nested data.

Turned out to be a just kind of YAML ... only incomplete and not parsable!

sigh...!

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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