I myself very much enjoy reading the reviews that people have done on assorted modules and books. They serve often as a quick tutorial introduction, and there's generally a couple modules in there I might have never thought of using.

Alas, I think there could be a couple more categories for reviews.

Firstly, software. A lot of people use different editors for Perl and other programs that augment their use of Perl. Although these softwares might not be directly Perl related, their reviews can still be useful and pertinent from a monk point of view.

Secondly, I think an webarticle/magazine article category would be in order. A recent node by Ovid speaking on an article by Paul Graham is now one of my favorite nodes, and the replies that resulted were also excellent. (Perhaps this review category could be better generalized as offsite content).

Anyhoo, let me know what you guys think, and any other good category ideas.

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Re: More Review Categories
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 03, 2002 at 23:00 UTC

    A general software category might work. It should go without saying however that anything reviewed there should have a direct relation to Perl or a very common Perl task in some way or other. Editors is a good point; webserver daemons, database software for which Perl bindings exist or the likes might be other.

    I'm not really partial to the idea of a column/article review category. Ovid's note was hardly a review (can you really review an article? what's next, reviewing the review? :-)), it was a meditation sparked by a particular set of arguments. I think you will find just about all other similar nodes are similar in spirit also.

    I don't think there's that many categories that would make sense; a software review category sounds like definitely a good idea though.

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      I'd have to agree with you on the article thing. It was an offhand sort of idea.
      How would we get the software review thing in motion?
        You just wait for the gods to pick it up. Or not. :-)
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