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Here is an idea: if you don't have much positive & useful material to add, or simply think that a node is frivilous

Yeah, I guess no-one actually cares about CPAN pollution. It's just us CPAN purists who think bogus modules should not be in the XML:: namespace. We should not complain.

jryan, CPAN is an important Perl community service. Bad beta modules are welcome, humor is welcome. But a joke module should not be under a serious namespace, and the joke should be made much more obvious to those who don't know the phenomenon called "April fools day".

If this module was called Acme::XML::Simpler, I wouldn't have complained. 

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Re: Re: Re: new XML module
by jryan (Vicar) on Apr 02, 2002 at 22:32 UTC

    My gripe, Juerd, is that I that when I see childish responses such as these:

    I too am excited , I can't believe grantm's selfishness (CPAN is not a crap factory).
    Man oh man am I excited, so much so that I am going to write to grantm, and tell everybody I know to avoid his CPAN directory.
    can any fool add his own favourite Foo::Bar::Broken?
    Have you seen my latest module? **mocking code**

    that I very much wanted to never bother coming back here, as this kind of thing happens all the time. Its not like grantm is an stupid beginnier, his XML::Simple module seems to be quite popular. Even if he was, he most certainly did not deserve to be treated as such. I never said that you weren't allowed to voice complaints on his actions, but perhaps it could have been voiced a little better?

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      can any fool add his own favourite Foo::Bar::Broken?

      That was a related question, but "any fool" is not an alias for grantm, and "Foo::Bar::Broken" is not an alias for XML::Simpler. I'm ashamed one of my favourite sites lacks even the simplest layer of quality control.

      Have you seen my latest module? **mocking code**

      That was supposed to be a joke. Just like XML::Simpler, it turned out to be a bad one. It is however a good example of code that does exactly what is documented, and I couldn't have written my reply without this visualisation.

      Its not like grantm is an stupid beginnier, his XML::Simple module seems to be quite popular.

      I quite like XML::Simple. I hate XML::Simpler, though (mostly because of it's serious-looking name).

      As for crazyinsomniac's reaction, of course I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'd like to add that I was about to write something similar - that's what people do when they're very upset. 

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