in reply to On Challenging Ways to Learn Perl

Speaking of directly writing image formats in Perl, I once wrote to PNG directly from Perl. It ended up being 10x faster for my limited needs than going through either Image::Magick or GD.
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?

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Re^2: On Challenging Ways to Learn Perl
by mobiusinversion (Beadle) on Mar 28, 2008 at 04:34 UTC
    Did you use a Gzip module?
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      Nope. I served up through Apache and it handled the gzipping for me. :-)
      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?
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