Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

[Damian Conway]

Nat observed:

   > Moving things to modules (a) does little for the size of Perl, and (b)
   > promotes Pythonization of the language (i.e., all programs begin with
   > 20 lines of `load this module, load that module, load the other
   > module').  Your criteria for moving to a module can't simply be
   > whether it's a system call or not, you must use something that takes
   > into account the hindrance and the payoff.

Amen!

Damian