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Re: What's wrong with re-inventing wheelsby tinita (Parson) |
on Jul 11, 2006 at 10:38 UTC ( [id://560390]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
just a recent bad example of reinventing the wheel:
http://search.cpan.org/~abalama/Template-1.21/
i know this is a bit offtopic, but to get a relation to the topic: it's really important for a module author to hear "don't reivent the wheel" and "couldn't you just use module Y instead?" otherwise people will upload stuff like the above which is really bad because of several reasons (name clash, bad documentation (i can't see a simple working example, just fragments of code), no strict and warnings, no tests, no comparisons to other templating systems). actually, when i saw the above module, i wished there was a possibility to delete code from CPAN. the author itself doesn't care about the mentioned problems. if you think about the questions you get asked as a re-inventor you either stop reinventing the wheel or you figure out why you have to do it and document it.
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