You know that this ranking would be subjective.

But If I can accept the bias for the functions I think it's not good/fair to accept it for the modules :

Some people have put lots of efforts in their modules,
who will judge if this one is better than this one ?

And the one which will be great for you beccause you need it
or beccause it solved one of your biggest problem
would be totally useless for other.

For those reasons (subjectivity, and judging other work)
I prefer to stay with the current reviews systems :
Anyone can make a review of a module or comment it,
it's OBVIOUSLY subjective (it's explicitly bind to ONE author appreciation)
and anyone can make up his mind by studying different reviews/comments...

I should think why it doesn't bother me so much function (may be beccause saying 'syscall is not so usefull for a beginner' won't HURT anybody but probably bring me some flames...).
But the fact is that I like your idea about the functions for 2 reasons :
Anyway for those willing to answer zeno has made a useful piece of code to learn Perl functions
(or get a list of 206 functions).

"Only Bad Coders Badly Code In Perl" (OBC2IP)

In reply to Re: Which Perl functions are ireally/i useful? by arhuman
in thread Which Perl functions are ireally/i useful? by nysus

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