Seekers of Perl Wisdon. The idea is to find out how to do something in Perl. The way most professionals use to interact with DBMs and RDBMs in Perl is to use modules like DB_File and DBI. We tend to not roll our own when a perfectly good solution exists.

That said, we also like to improve existing modules and release those improvements. Why? Because we can save other people time by telling them how we fixed a problem we ran into.

This isn't to say that learning how something is done is a bad thing. In fact, it's a good thing. But, telling someone to roll their own when all they need is to have this thing work in three hours ... that's not very wise, nor is it Lazy.

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Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.

In reply to Re (dragonchild) 9: millions of records in a Hash by dragonchild
in thread millions of records in a Hash by johnkj

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