Some of the “latest and greatest” Perl libraries are 15 years old.

I wrote this up at some point better but here’s the tl;dr: someone could write the most genius library in Perl history but if it comes without full tests, documentation, a ticket queue… it is hurdle riddled nonsense as far as value to other hackers, coworkers, and inheritors. And unless one is a “class A hacker,” as the animes say, the chances of the software being actual genius is basically zero.

If that sounds like I discourage writing stuff from scratch, I don’t. I have always advocated for as many new libraries and experiments as possible, while also being quite judgemental of low quality releases and output of other paid devs. Hobby, experiment, personal project? Anything goes. Leaving a mess for others? Not cool.

In reply to Re^3: Rediscovering Hubris by Your Mother
in thread Rediscovering Hubris by Leitz

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