* "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-04T10:40:39] > And then still people make more of the same. Take Getopt::Long. A perfect and > very functional module. Full of features, matured, and actively maintained. > Now go look at CPAN, and see how many people either do not like it or find > other reasons to write their own. > > The problems arise when authors of big modules start prefering non-core > versions of good core modules. IMHO something like that should give you a > (very) negative score on CPANTS.
Could you elaborate on this? As stated, it seems pretty ludicrous to me. It reads like this: You should not use module B that is like module A, if A is in the core distribution. This is true regardless of the fact that B may be better optimized for your current needs, planned needs, programming style. This can be further distilled to: There's more than one way to do it, but most of them will get you dirty looks. -- rjbs
