No we don't.

I don't need an SPL. I don't think the perl community need an SPL. If we'd wanted a single standard library of modules that've been singled out and promoted as the absolute truth and The Way We Do Things Around Here, we'd have turned to Java in the first place. Java is a great language that has an excellent class library that's getting better for each release. Also, java gives you no choice about what library/classes/modules to use. It's Sun's way or the highway.

I don't want that to happen to perl. I don't want a standards committee to decide what algorithms I should run. You might say that I have a choice and that I could choose not to go with the standard modules, but that's not how things'd work out in the long run. Eventually, there wouldn't be any other modules, and if I insisted on rolling my own, I'd be derided as a naive newbie. It couldn't happen here, you say? This is already how we treat anyone who admits to writing his own cgi routines (see A "newbies" thoughts on cgi.pm... for the most recent thread).

Cheers,
--Moodster

In reply to Re: We have no SPL. by moodster
in thread We have no SPL. by educated_foo

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