I just knew you were going to use me as an example (even though I don't see how it has anything to do with documentation)...

That's because I don't think the reason people avoid modules is because of poor documentation. CGI.pm has reasonably good documentation. (I say "reasonably" because it has a lot of documentation, and it's really difficult to arrange that in a perfectly clear and obvious way.)

I just wonder why you decided not to mention headers at all in that thread and instead went on a tangent about benchmarking.

I didn't think you cared about correctness, merely "wastefulness".

Update: I don't mean to sound offense, and I realize this can come across that way. I apologize. What I meant to say was that by the point in the conversation where I started, it sounded like the conversation had already gone off on a tangent and you believed that the best reason not to use a module was due to its weight. In my experience, that's rarely a wise choice, especially with regard to network programming.

In reply to Re^3: Our documentation sucks by chromatic
in thread Our documentation sucks by jimt

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