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in reply to Production Environments and "Foreign" Code

Most of my employers have had the attitude "Do whatever you like, but it's your $#%@ if it breaks." I personally have never run into a similar policy.

As for modules ... my feeling is that the "core" modules are a subset of the real "core" modules. I have never had a problem d/l'ing almost any CPAN module and having it work according to docs. (This doesn't mean that I didn't have to extensively augment/modify the module(s), but that's another story.) No data loss, no corruption, no nothing. YMMV.

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