While it's nice to know how your computer is put together, I stopped building computers 5 years ago and prefer to spend a little more money to get something that's been tested. Same with my house - I don't build stuff in my house because it's a better use of my time and money to pay someone.

All of those apply to my coding tenfold because the more productive I am at coding, the more I get done. The more I get done, the more I can charge per hour. Thus, CPAN brings more money into my family. That's why I use CPAN.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: Use CPAN; Parable of the stubborn new monk. by dragonchild
in thread Use CPAN; Parable of the stubborn new monk. by amarquis

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