When you want to get to the corner store, how long does it take you to slay the dinosaur? For then you must bury it, wait for it to turn into oil, pump the oil out of the ground and start-up the refinery while you build a fire to start smelting that chunk of rusty rock you just dug up...

No, that's not what you do. You plop your buns into that nice pre-built car, drive down to the store to go to the freezer-section to grab that nice pre-built pizza in a box, muttering “well, it will just have to do” as you wander over towards the beer.

So, build computer-programs that way, using the highest-level tools you can find. Because what you want to do is to “cease feeling hungry and cease feeling sober.” Or to have a working program that solves whatever your client next needs to do, so that you can enjoy your box-pizza and beer without having to push-through three hours of coding work with either a faint buzz or a big hangover. Does a high-level programming tool that does most of the work for you, or better-yet a CPAN module that does all of the work for you, sound appealing? Sure.

Laziness. Hubris. Warm pizza. Cold beer. Life is good.™