Re: Perl, the new generation

[Stephen P. Potter]

Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispere
d:
| All Perl programmers, including lone ones, really should be using CPAN as
| much as they can, which means that the parts of the language needed to use
| CPAN modules are part of the understanding you need.

This comment in and of itself sets a very high bar on perl's usability.  In
essense, you are saying that to use perl you must know (of) the 2500+
modules in CPAN.  You are also saying that OOP is now required, because
many/most CPAN modules use OOP.

-spp