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There are also many useful modules that don't really have a learning curve; you just look at their docs once or twice, and then you can use it to great benefit.

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Re^2: Which modules provide highest return-on-investment?
by pseudomonas (Monk) on Oct 10, 2008 at 08:56 UTC
    I agree with the last bit - there are lots of modules that have one or two useful methods that one can just use intuitively. LWP::Simple comes to mind - it's not the most flexible or robust way of implementing a web client, but it takes seconds to get the hang of it and it's good enough for many situations.

    One of the first modules I got to grips with was CGI, and I shudder to think how much time I'd wasted before that doing things by hand that it would have let me do automatically.

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Re^2: Which modules provide highest return-on-investment?
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Oct 11, 2008 at 07:10 UTC
    You only needed to look at the DBI docs once? Wow... Do I need "fetch," "fetchrow," "fetchrow_array," "fetchrow_arrayref," or something else? It's a useful module, but unless you use it constantly, I can't imagine using it without the docs.
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      Read my node again.

      I wrote

      There are also many useful modules that don't really have a learning curve

      I never said that DBI was one of those without a learning curve. (Unless my English is worse than I thought, and I wrote something that I didn't intend).

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        Ah, I understand now. I read your list as examples of the "also many useful modules."
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