...or when there isn't a module that does what you want...

...or it doesn't install and it takes you longer to try to figure out how the module works or isn't working rather than writing it yourself...

...or when you're confined to an old version of Perl that doesn't support the module you might've used...

In my case, since I cannot directly attach to CPAN from my dev machine, if modules have a lot of dependencies, I find the install hassle to be a pain... as I have to dl it on one machine, burn it to a disk, then install it by hand on my dev machine...

Of course when there is a module that does what I want, and it works and I don't have to implement it myself, I cry tears of joy... :)

In reply to Re^4: w/Modules and w/o Modules by raybies
in thread w/Modules and w/o Modules by Jeri

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