I mentioned this somewhere vaguely, I myself:
0 I rely upon the module name or the *.readme,
and secondarily the README or pod if using .*search.cpan.org
1 Is it supposed to do what I want?
skip to 3
2 Is it related to what I want?
(Could I rethink my strategy to make use of it)
3 Does it work? skip to 5
4 Can I make it work, or cajole the author into doing so?
5 I use it.
* And finally, is it just plain cool
and likely to be something I'll use if it's laying around?
(I'm a packrat, there's a reason I have
300k of bookmarks even after pulling out most of the
software
I frankly don't care about the API,
as I much as I dislike OO if it works
I'll take what I can get, same goes for
support (excluding step 4) and maturity.
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perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"