* David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-06 13:45]:
>> This underlying behavior is one of my biggest pet peeves with
>> the perl community. Too many people want to go out and write
>> their own version of modules instead of contributing to the
>> work others began.
>
> I suspect that many of these are API driven. Programming
> should be fun and using an API that doesn't "fit" isn't fun.
> As a result people go write their own stuff that they feel is
> easier/faster to use. This is the flip side of impatience and
> hubris. E.g. CPAN search found 510 "Simple", 82 "Easy" and 80
> "Fast" modules -- not to mention the 49 "Getopt" modules. I
> don't think that sort of thing is going to change.
I also don't believe it is particularly specific to Perl. It
seems to me that it is just particularly visible in Perl, because
the high manipulexity and whipuptitude we so enjoy make it quite
feasible to reinvent moderately complex wheels, so people do it.
But it actually happens everywhere.
Regards,
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