Take a look at those several scripts and see how they relate to one another. It's good to put those scripts into modules where they can be reused.

For myself, I find that when I am coding, I often develop a series of "favorite techniques" that have a similar theme (like being CGI or DBI related). When I do that, I think it's good to take those separate bits of code and combine them into one module of related functions. For you, instead of having 5 scripts, you might only have two, if their functions are combined along similar lines.

It sounds to me like what you are doing is creating modular code. This is a Good Thing. Just as Larry Wall (I think) said that a program should do one thing and do it well, a module should do one thing (or handle one set of related tasks) and do it well.

In reply to RE: One Big script or many little ones? by Ovid
in thread One Big script or many little ones? by BigJoe

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