This is the first time I have ever been really disappointed with a post on Perlmonks.

This post is the most useless kind of flaming and invective. You "see no reason to be nice to this author". How about because he's human? He has done nothing to you. Your life is not inextricably linked with the quality of CPAN modules. He wrote some code and shared it. You don't like it. It's buggy and broken. So what? No one is asking you to use it.

You could easily say "This code is broken, here's why" and written the same article without the childish namecalling and superior attitude. You even went so far as to call this person a "fool". I suppose that your code contains no imperfections. You've never written a buggy or broken function and God knows, you've certainly never released any code that wasn't 100% bug-free and useful in all ways to all people.

Even if his code is an "F-", what is the point of this post? To show us that you know what is good for everyone? Are you the CPAN police force?

You don't want good code, you just want to flame. You told us you didn't contact the author. Your reasoning: "If you're going to release something on CPAN, you should communicate beforehand". I wasn't aware that submitting code to you for approval was one of the necessary steps to getting modules on CPAN. If you were truly concerned with the quality of CPAN code, you would have contacted the author. Instead, you insult and denigrate. Apparently this person isn't worthy of common courtesy or respect, but he IS worthy of a multi-page flame on a forum he very likely does not visit and cannot defend himself in.

Next time, why don't you try posting a useful and constructive critique? Show the author (and us) where he went wrong and how to fix it. That can be done without all the schoolyard antics, you know. I don't know about the rest of the monks, but I come here to learn and share with people with whom have a common interest. If I wanted to see posts like this, I would spend my time on public message boards and newsgroups.

SpaceAce
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In reply to Re: Handy dandy CPAN pollution by SpaceAce
in thread Handy dandy CPAN pollution by Juerd

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