So, I couldn't sleep last night. Apparantly I wasn't thinking either, but that's beside the point.

So, in my sleepless daze, I stumbled on this node. I ++'ed it and noted that it had a pretty good rep. Pondering it a moment, I thought "Hey, I could do that" and began to. Now, leaving aside that I was alot more exhausted than I thought I was, I wrote some descent code. I have really come a long way in the Perlish arts.

The thing is, if I finish this it'll be my first working program worth noting (in Perl,anyways). This isn't my job, and probably never will be. I have written one minor script to make things easier for myself - and it's simply a little module doc management tool so that I can keep at my Perl addiction with less fuss.

But I am compotent - I just don't have anything to write. So, my formal question: what do you guys want? You out there in the trenches, hacking for a living, what Perl modules do you need to get your work done? You, out there in the universities, what cool new conceptual niftiness is unimplemented? And you, out there on the bleeding edge, what new TLA is unsupported in Perl? Where can I subclass, bugfix, document and do the community good? Is there an official "wish list" out there? Tell me, for I am just looking for neat stuff to do.

Cheers,
Erik

Light a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Catch a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchet

PS: Yes, document. I'll even just do docs, if I like the module, and know what it does - of course, usually that means having read the docs :-)

In reply to Single Male Perl Hacker looking for unwritten Modules for candlelight dinners and feature expansion by erikharrison

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