Moin, On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:59, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * 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.
In addition, thanx to the highly central CPAN repository, it is also a very visible problem. Of the hundred re-inventions for Heap in C, C++ or C# you never hear anything because you never know they even exist. Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Thu Apr 6 18:36:47 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. This email violates U.S. patent #6,756,999 <http://tinyurl.com/2vuqm>: [ [ Konsoles* ] [ Mozilla ] [ KMail ]]
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