On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does it seem with Perl that the likelihood of entering dependency hell
> is inversely proportional to the length of the script you want to write?

This is the sort of price you pay when the language has a million
times more 3rd parties libraries than it does standard libraries.
Everyone wants their name listed on CPAN.

A similar buildup is occurring with Ruby gems.  Everyone is forking
everyone's code on Github, making duplicate, only slightly
different/better gems, it's a mess.

What happened to the good old days when projects rarely got forked,
and you would know the download url of your favorite stuff by heart?

I'm using Python more and more these past couple of years.  Works
really well for command line scripting as well as large scale web
development.


-- 
Greg Donald
destiney.com | gregdonald.com

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