b3b0p - You're absolutely right to create something which interests you as a practice for your own skills. And it's perfectly possible that in doing so you might produce something which is indispensible to others.

However, one of the fundamental principles driving the perl community is 'laziness' (in a positive sense) and this more or less dictates that if someone has already produced a script which does the job perfectly well (eg a module on the CPAN), then don't try to reinvent the wheel (there are anyway almost always problems down the line which have already been ironed out in the modules)

So if you were to post a message saying that you are interested in creating a script to do this, that ot the other, the first thing to happen is that you would be grilled on the need to do it because there are x,y, or z modules on the CPAN. If you successfully argue your case then you would find a lot of support from the people at PM to help you achieve this. If not...

So carry on doing your own stuff to improve your skills an who knows, you may yet write that piece of software you dream of. And don't forget that if the community he created had been around at the time Larry Wall was writing Perl, he would probably have been given a pretty hard time about it himself!!

Sorry if this does not convince you otherwise ;)

In reply to Re: Re: Content management system = perl coming of age ritual? by jonnyfolk
in thread Content management system = perl coming of age ritual? by BUU

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.