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So you're saying other languages have somehow magically managed to keep their third party packages and libraries from ever breaking? Or that they don't have de
by 321abc 17y ago
So you're saying other languages have somehow magically managed to keep their third party packages and libraries from ever breaking? Or that they don't have dependencies?
Look, when you've got a large enough library of third-party contributions, some portion of them will be broken. And the more libraries people use to build their own libraries, the more dependencies there'll be.
Let me know when some other languages manage to solve these problems, or when the upstart languages actually get enough third party libraries for them to have to start facing this problem themselves.
- ubernostrum 17y agoI'm saying that an awful lot of Perl advocacy is predicated on CPAN, and that -- since Sturgeon's Law doesn't have an exception for the CPAN -- this is basically the same sort of overhyped propaganda the parent comment was lamenting from other languages. That in no way implies any of the statements you're attempting to shove into my mouth, however, so perhaps you should step back a bit and reconsider what you're saying?
- berntb 17y agoThe disadvantage with CPAN is that you need to know what you're doing (or check Perladvent and ask on Perlmonks.org). How many DateTime modules are there? Which one is really used by everyone the last few years -- and when should you use the previous one? CPAN is, afaik, better than anything else out there.