but I think this reason for discounting it might be bogus.
I don't think its bogus. It's a personal value judgement.
If
jonadb doesn't feel IO::All is an improvement, why would he switch (certainly would be a waste of his time)?
As for your analogy, i'm sure to that C programmer Perl was "a needless exercise in wheel-reinventing"
which is why that C programmer never learned perl. Doesn't stop us from enjoying :)(btw, I didn't think much of IO::All except that it's got bugs {see rt})
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