Merlyn may not agree with me on this, but I think but I think my version is consistent with Feynman's original essay on cargo-cult science. Programmers who use a module because they know what it does, but don't know how it works, can end up getting unexpected results.. like ever-increasing chains of dependencies.

While you have a point about "not really understanding the module you're using", the problem is that: Where do you stop needing to understand what you're doing?

Do you need to understand everything perl is doing at the C level? Everything C is doing at the ASM level? Everything ASM is doing at the uh, binary level (whatever the level below that is considered. Machine code?). Where do you stop needing to understand and just use the functionality?

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