Re^2: Shut down the Snippets Section

I'm trying to figure out why the distinction between Code and Meditations exists

It's what you expect to find when you go to each section.
You go to Code to look for programs, i.e. code that can be downloaded and edited or executed, and to Meditations for a debate over code, or for code that is shown not as a working program, but as a demonstration of a concept, or as a RFC.

Software speaks in tongues of man.
Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'.
We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.

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Re^3: Shut down the Snippets Section by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 14, 2008 at 18:03 UTC
I go to CPAN to find programs that I can download. I go to Perlmonks to discuss concepts and to learn. Code is a poor CPAN. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]
Re^4: Shut down the Snippets Section by Erez (Priest) on Apr 14, 2008 at 19:22 UTC
Code is a poor CPAN. If it was meant as CPAN, then it would've been a poor CPAN. It's hardly meant as that, but as a collection of working examples, scripts, utilities, proof of concepts, how-to's, recipes, implementation of design patterns, workarounds, macros, joke programs, and whatever else you don't go to CPAN to look for. RFC's can go to meditations. Also, there are many levels of Perl programmers, and at the early-to-mid levels, reading code is a great way of learning. CPAN is meant for a sort of "black box" usage, not for displaying code examples that should be abused and edited. Software speaks in tongues of man. Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'. We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.	[reply]
Re^5: Shut down the Snippets Section by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 14, 2008 at 19:31 UTC
CPAN isn't a blackbox. That's where I go to learn stuff. But, either way. Code is fine to keep. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]