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Re^2: Perl needs The Solutionby jimt (Chaplain) |
on Jul 18, 2006 at 23:47 UTC ( [id://562162]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I think one of the key words there is "experienced" - most of the experienced PHP users I know use a templating tool. And that's cool - let the more experienced users use a different tool. But that doesn't change the fact that to the beginner, PHP itself is the way to go. So our little newbie starts off just using PHP as the way to do things because it seems obvious that that's the way to go. Then they get more experienced and switch to something else. That approach is probably what I'm advocating more than anything else. Some way to consistently say that when you're starting out and need a persistence layer that DBIx::Class (or whatever) is the way to go. So that's the out of the box solution that the new person knows is safe to try, and later on they learn what they're doing and can more easily switch to something else. That way, people approaching the language can see that there's a widely considered "good" (if not "best") way to do things that they should look at first, and after they've actually learned how to use the language and are comfortable with things they can start evaluating other solutions AND make a wiser decision as well. Otherwise, the neophyte will need to learn the language and then figure out which approaches to take, which modules to use, which decisions are good. It adds complexity and risk and that's what I think we need to help alleviate.
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