[oak perl] Useful Modules

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Thu May 3 23:11:48 PDT 2007


Hi Quinn:   Interesting observations. Thanks.   -- George

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 22:44, Quinn Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:52:43PM -0700, skolupae at sonic.net wrote:
> > Great topic.   Especially if everyone brings a short .txt or .html of
> > his/her liked modules.   I'd volunteer to collect them into a .html for
> > the
> > Oakland.pm website.
> >
> > I have a few.   Like Cwd, Carp, IO::File, Data::Dumper, File::Path.  
> > They are a big help for basic file-system crawling and string
> > manipulation.
> >
> > I might be able to find basic CGI.pm usage in my archives from the
> > biotech days.
>
> Hmmn, I personally wouldn't teach that to newbies.  In my opinion,
> CGI.pm is one of those technologies whose time has come and gone.  New
> people should be learning a templating language instead, like TT or Mason.
>
> It's just so much nicer to have HTML with a few funky tags, rather
> than a bunch of calls insider a Perl program... particularly if you're
> working with a graphic designer who's supposed to code the XHTML/CSS.
>
> Not a new observation--just restating the conventional wisdom. :)
>
> PS:  It's interesting that all the modules you named as most useful are
> now Perl core modules.  I guess they made the right decision to include
> them.



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