Expanding a bit on jcwren's mention of support costs...

If you're going to convince a manager, it helps to speak some of the language. The most legitimate reason (IMHO) a manager can object to a Perl module is called Total Cost of Ownership. From the point of view of the programmer writing the code, installing a module is a no-brainer; it makes writing the code easier. But the Total Cost to the organization isn't just the time and disk space to install the module once. It becomes a job for a system administrator to install on every server/workstation which will run the software you write that uses the module. And adding that to the list of software installed on every new system that comes in the door. And upgrading the module to the next version that fixes a crucial bug. And...

These are all solvable problems, to be sure, and the particulars will vary from company to company. But you'll get farther convincing management to install modules if you take a little time to think through some of these issues and address them when making your case.

In reply to RE: Getting managers to accept Perl modules by knight
in thread Getting managers to accept Perl modules by Fastolfe

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