Steve and crew,
...It would seem to me that our friends at CPAN wasn't happy with the
joke-modules in regular-namespace, either, as XML::Simpler seems to have
disappeared from the author's directory completely (?) and Inline::PERL is
now ACME::Inline::PERL (which seems a better place to me). I don't know
if these changes were made by the authors or by CPAN gods, but a "thanks"
is probably in order. In my view, jokes on (or after) April 1 are all
fine and good, but otherwise when somebody has little reasonable
expectation that a module will be a joke, CPAN shouldn't be giving them
jokes. ('Course, on another day when I'm less grumpy and hepped up on
cold meds, I might claim otherwise. :->)
I was curious whether joke-modules usually came out on april first; the
answer seems to be "not much".
there are a few at:
http://search.cpan.org/recent?d=20000401
and
http://search.cpan.org/recent?d=20010401
including the wonderful DNA module by Schwern
http://search.cpan.org/recent?d=20020401
oddly, HTML::LoL (construct HTML from pleasing Perl data structures)
isn't a joke module. With a name like LOL, the description, and the
date, you might think it was though.
..and who can forget ACME::Inline::Parrot?
http://search.cpan.org/recent?d=20040401
-Daniel
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, steve wrote:
> Hey, am I the only one to be burned by a CPAN module that turned out to be a joke?
>
> The first time I found one, I realized what it was ... Inline::PERL which claims to
> "Bring the power of PERL programming to your Perl programs." Obviously this was
> intended as funny.
>
> But, while working on an XML project for work, I tried to find an XML::Simple for
> ActiveState Perl ... and could not. Instead I found XML::Ximple (not quite what I
> wanted) and (ironically) XML::Simpler.
>
> After installing and testing XML::Simpler ... I realized that it was meant as a joke
> (I guess a sarcastic rebuttal to the complaints lodged at XML::Simple). Still, it
> burned me ... and took time to install and test. I didn't discover it's ironic
> nature until I examined the source code.
>
> [BTW: I never did find a working PPD for XML::Simple, but when I learned it was pure
> perl, I just downloaded into the appropriate directory and was able to get on with
> my project.]
>
> So, am I just incredibly naive or has anyone else been burned by joke modules?
>
> ===
> Stephen A. Jarjoura
>
>
>
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