Joke or no joke, this should NOT be in CPAN, this should NOT be work load for testers. I wonder why this module (the namespace for it) was not rejected - can any fool add his own favourite Foo::Bar::Broken?
Now, beginners will think this module is real, and try to use it. That means a waste of development time and it's a very bad name for Perl and the CPAN.
Maybe if it was named Acme::XML::Simpler, or XML::Simpleminded, maybe I could laugh.
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I think we are saying the same thing. As to whether any fool can add his own Foo::Bar::Broken, yes they can.
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