I agree with you as well on this ! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Build from scratch to teach yourself about things, but use the wheels > already invented for real/production work. > > -- > Chas. Owens > wonkden.net > The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. > > > On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53, Gunwant Singh wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> I have a dilmma for the last few days. I read an article about '10 things >> every Perl hacker should know' (available here: >> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6077064.html). >> >> And I was concerned about the point that says NOT to reinvent the wheel. I >> was just thinking to build up a traversal program for a directory a couple >> of days ago and then I read this article.Now Perl has so many modules made >> by 'The Gurus'.And I found one of them "File::Find" which made my work so >> easy. >> >> I wanted to know , what is your opinion on the same. Should we build up >> the code from the very scratch - In that way we learn new ways to build up >> the same code which may help in coding something similar in a better way, or >> use the modules whenever/wherever they are available. >> >> Any suggestions/opinions will be highly appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> Gunwant Singh. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
