Boy I really wish you werent anonymous. I'd follow your posts otherwise. Please consider using a nick for your posts. That way folk like myself can keep up with what you have to say.

90% of everything is garbage

This is one of my favorite lines. I first heard it in context of Science Fiction "90% of everything is crap, do you expect Sci-Fi to be any different". My only beef wold be that I bet CPAN has way better odds. My own estimate is that its more like 50% of CPAN is crap (including at least one module I've posted myself). Which in of itself is somewhat impressive.

It's the same reason why there's so more much crud Perl code around than python or ruby.

Is this really true on a percentage basis? I'd bet it isnt... (And hope to hell im right :-)

Get yerself a nick buddy. Youll be just as anonymous as "some_snarky_perl_programmer" as you are as anonymonk. :-)
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demerphq

<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: CPAN Module Evaluation Red-Flags by demerphq
in thread CPAN Module Evaluation Red-Flags by bsb

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