"I don't trust code that I haven't written because I don't know what it's doing to my system."

But Perl is OK? Hmm. Maybe they need their head examined. Did you tell them that perl 5.6.x comes with like 100 modules?

Also, I usually point out the other half of their logic this way: "You are right, you don't know what the module is doing. It likely is doing a great deal of things you never would have thought of on your own."

Then I stop talking to or helping people who still don't get it. Stupid people aren't really worth my time to help, especially if they won't listen to the best advice I have.

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$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl)

In reply to Re: A Fit on NIH by extremely
in thread A Fit on NIH by footpad

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