Most people who try to build something that already exists on CPAN are not doing it because they have looked at what's there and found it inadequate. Most of them are doing it because they haven't looked, or are too lazy to read the code that's already there and learn from it, or are too arrogant to accept a solution written by someone else. There Is More Than One Stupid And Inefficent Way To Do It would be a better acronym for the majority of cases you are describing.

If anyone posts a question saying "I have looked at X module, but found it didn't work for me becuase of Y" they will probably not be sent off to CPAN. State your research, if you have any, and you will get more appropriate answers. It's that simple.

In reply to Re: Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI by perrin
in thread Death and Return of TIMTOWTDI by dakedesu

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