Exactly! Why do we have all these large modules/packages that do extremely complicated things yet still provide an easy-to-use interface? Can't every CPAN author just golf their modules to hell? Why do they bother using modules from CPAN, a software repository that was created so others could reuse code that has usually been considered and tested longer than the usual development phase of any perl web project? I mean, the author of the module is only contributing to the same repository. Who cares about overlap? What are we paying these people for?

I say we abandon CPAN. I think it's finally time for us to pass around a petition for the implementation of the read_my_brain() built-in and send it to the p5p'ers. Who's with me?

Removing tongue from cheek,
Anonymous Monk