6 of one, a half-dozen of the other.

Sometimes someone will say "No modules" and there is a very good reason for it that they have no control over. But usually there isn't. What I think is particularly bad are the people who say that they don't want to use a module because they think that modules are slow. If getting the program ready quickly and making it robust is less important to you than raw performance, well that is a battle that has been fought from assembler to C to Perl, to Perl with modules - guess which side always wins in the end?

So someone shows up and says "no modules". Should we not make sure that the person really does understand what they are giving up?

OTOH we should - even while checking that - be sure not to be impolite because they really might be unable to do anything about the restriction.

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: Modules or lack thereof by tilly
in thread Modules or lack thereof by Blue

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