If I were a "n00b" wondering if I was making the best choice from among the many options the Perl community provides, and had no clue how to make such a determination myself, I'd hope that someone would point me toward perlmonks.org.

Since I'm not a "n00b", I don't want other people thinking for me. I don't want someone telling me which modules to use. I don't want someone forcing his pet programming paradigm on me. For that matter, I don't want my professional judgment trumped by some groupthink suit dweeb who salivates over the flavor of the month in the trade rags.

"Best practices"... best for whom? Determined by whom? Determined *for* whom? As far as I'm concerned, the best practice is to well and truly know your craft and to always strive to be the very best at it.

Oh, yeah... </endrant>

Myself, I don't care what the corporate world thinks (regardless of the fact that think is far too generous a term for what it is that they do) about anything. I just do my job, and if Perl's the right tool, I use it. Most of the time, it is. If someone who controls my paycheck insists that I use something else, then that something else is the right tool for the job. I won't even argue the point. Life's too short already, I'm not going to waste any of it arguing myself into homelessness.

In reply to Re: Perl needs The Solution by gloryhack
in thread Perl needs The Solution by jimt

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