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Why I won't be contributing to the 'CPAN rating system'; and why you don't want me to.by BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Aug 08, 2016 at 07:38 UTC ( [id://1169327]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Here, because there is simply no point in burying this much effort and venom over there. if you applied your expertise while sticking to the technical issue at hand your input would be very valuable IMHO. Let's see, after 12 exchanges where I've politely tried to lay out all that is wrong with the "cpan rating" system: you want me to apply myself to what you think is a valuable cause. Correct? Don't be offended by the above, save that for later. This is just a reiteration of the reasons I will not be contributing to that system:
Basically, not only are you asking me to not just express my opinion, but rather work up a technical discussion to support my position -- which is often as not based upon instinct rather than rigorous discovery(*); but to do so in support of a system that you feel has merit and which I feel has less than none.*example: if I look inside a module source and find the code "badly formatted"; I'm as likely as not to stop looking further. if you applied your expertise while sticking to the technical issue at hand your input would be very valuable IMHO. Okay. Here is where you -- along with many others -- are likely to be offended. I am not a member of a "Perl community"; I'm a Perl user. The only thing I have in common with other Perl users, is my use of Perl. THAT IS NOT THE BASIS FOR A COMMUNITY! I don't attend Perl conferences; I'm not a member of any Perl Monger's group; I don't "hang out" is #perl; I'm not a "member" of p5p; I don't have an account on Perl.org; nor do I blog about Perl. (Nor anything else!) I consider "online communities" to be an oxymoron; the ultimate in naïve anthropomorphisation of technology.
What I see of the Perl users is that they do not fit any of those criteria. The second is the nearest to something that one might apply to them if you squint hard enough; but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. My affiliation with this site is purely selfish. I prefer to fill my down-time with stuff I find intellectually stimulating. For some its TV or music; for some video games; for some it crosswords or sudoku; for me, its programming. Historically, I came here to learn Perl for a particular purpose. That purpose evaporated, but despite that, Perl rapidly became my go to language for getting stuff done. I stayed because I found the ready supply of interesting problems stimulated me to becoming very intimately involved in understanding just what it is about Perl that makes it so productive. In a nutshell, I put that down to a combination of: intuitively minimalist design and pragmatic implementation. But as a whole, I find that the users of Perl are riven with internal conflicts. Less a group of like minded people brought together by their shared backgrounds, goals and aspirations; more a scrum of disparate people all pulling, tugging and warring, trying to bend Perl to what they think it ought to be. If you doubt this, read Re: What's the perl5's future?. So, besides that I won't lend my efforts to what I consider to be a wholly inadequate, broken and questionable system -- because I can see my reviews being routinely hidden thus wasted effort -- you can probably see that you (authors; the Perl community) almost certainly do not want me to do so. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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