Re: "I want a shopping-cart but I want to do it from scratch"

Easy: give him cost and time scales with and without using CPAN. A factor of between 10 and 100 seems likely, although it could be a lot more than that!

Perl's payment curve coincides with its learning curve.

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Re^2: "I want a shopping-cart but I want to do it from scratch" by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2008 at 02:53 UTC
Good heavens, no! He might say yes! `:-)`
Re^3: "I want a shopping-cart but I want to do it from scratch" by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 16, 2008 at 03:04 UTC
But that's good! Just study the prior CPAN art, perform the task in 1/3 the time it would take from scratch and pocket the difference (don't show him this node though). ;) Perl's payment curve coincides with its learning curve.	[reply]