On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote:
[..]
> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so
> move on (boring git).
There are two official answers here:
a) This is a Matter of Religion,
if you do not use the Module Religion
then this does not matter - you code will
carp and/or die as it will - unless you hold to
the True Orthodoxy without Religion, and hence it
will never Die.
b) If we took coding seriously, we would of course be writing
all of this in 'c' - which is the fastest way to make portable
assembler, which of course is the fastest way to make CPU specific
microCode. But since we have Faith in those who write the core
components of compilers - and we find that there is always a
fine balance to be maintained between too serious - and over
engineering a solution, as opposed to merely splapDashing code
together driven like mere beast of burden without any thought
to be applied to the project - we find the most reasonable balance
to be perl - since we OO when we want or need to, or Proceduralise
because we just need a specific sequence to occur. Hence Either there
is a Module at the CPAN that solves this - or there is a coding
opportunity that calls us forth to the Quest...
In short, We know where Our Towel Is, We accept that the Vogons
are Coming - We have no problem with Giving the Ring to someone
who needs an excuse to get out of the Shire - and in the main
plan to follow C.S.Lewis's advice when asked:
"but what if Jesus Comes Back Today?"
"He will find me in my garden tending my roses."
Hence the best advice would be to tend to your knitting, laugh
when you can, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired,
and find new things to learn every day....
Since you already know to use strict and '-w' and have found for
yourself the trade offs about coding, which is too much, which
is too little, and which is just right - and have no real problem
with being a blonde girl in the forest stealing porridge from
BearPersons, or falling down Rabbit Holes of new coding paradigms.
In short - it is all merely the ZeitGeist of the OldGuys who were
not hip to the Older Jokes, or the Newer Ones.
Go thou And Code without Bugs!
For surely the process of typing goes on for ever!
And there will be a new module at the CPAN you really
should have read the README on, installed, tested,
turned in your bug reports as appropriate, and solved
all of the problems in the world.
IT IS A SCARY PLACE OUT THERE!!!
ciao
drieux
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