Let me preface this by saying the following.
Your books and articles have been an incredibly tremendous help to me over the years. That being said, maybe you should lighten up. Maybe I'm reading the wrong tone into it, but I can almost hear the scolding condescending voice. (Or perhaps it's lack of sleep making me hear things.)

Sometimes you have to take things apart and put them together just for the experience. You learn a lot more that way (Even if it doesn't go back together quite right.) Would you not agree that you will learn more by hacking through a problem then by saying use Some::Module;?

I'm not discouraging the use of Modules, far from it. But sometimes you have to do things the hard way, just to do it. I don't think this is a particularly worthy example, but in general, there seems to be a bit of ambivalence towards people who want to solve problems themselves instead of using a CPAN solution.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: Re: One-Line Web Counter by shotgunefx
in thread One-Line Web Counter by Jerry

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