Perl coding - Reinventing the Wheel ?

Hi all,

I have a dilmma for the last few days. I read an article about '10
things every Perl hacker should know' (available here:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6077064.h tml).

And I was concerned about the point that says NOT to reinvent the wheel.
I was just thinking to build up a traversal program for a directory a
couple of days ago and then I read this article.Now Perl has so many
modules made by 'The Gurus'.And I found one of them "File::Find" which
made my work so easy.

I wanted to know , what is your opinion on the same. Should we build up
the code from the very scratch - In that way we learn new ways to build
up the same code which may help in coding something similar in a better
way, or use the modules whenever/wherever they are available.

Any suggestions/opinions will be highly appreciated.

Cheers,
Gunwant Singh.

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Re: Perl coding - Reinventing the Wheel ?

Build from scratch to teach yourself about things, but use the wheels
already invented for real/production work.

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On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53, Gunwant Singh wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a dilmma for the last few days. I read an article about '10
> things every Perl hacker should know' (available here: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6077064.h tml)
> .
>
> And I was concerned about the point that says NOT to reinvent the
> wheel. I was just thinking to build up a traversal program for a
> directory a couple of days ago and then I read this article.Now Perl
> has so many modules made by 'The Gurus'.And I found one of them
> "File::Find" which made my work so easy.
>
> I wanted to know , what is your opinion on the same. Should we build
> up the code from the very scratch - In that way we learn new ways to
> build up the same code which may help in coding something similar in
> a better way, or use the modules whenever/wherever they are available.
>
> Any suggestions/opinions will be highly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Gunwant Singh.
>
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org
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>
>


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Re: Perl coding - Reinventing the Wheel ?

Thank you very much! That answers my question.

Cheers,
Gunwant Singh.

Chas. Owens wrote:
> Build from scratch to teach yourself about things, but use the wheels
> already invented for real/production work.
>
> --
> Chas. Owens
> wonkden.net
> The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53, Gunwant Singh wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a dilmma for the last few days. I read an article about '10
>> things every Perl hacker should know' (available here:
>> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6077064.h tml).
>>
>> And I was concerned about the point that says NOT to reinvent the
>> wheel. I was just thinking to build up a traversal program for a
>> directory a couple of days ago and then I read this article.Now Perl
>> has so many modules made by 'The Gurus'.And I found one of them
>> "File::Find" which made my work so easy.
>>
>> I wanted to know , what is your opinion on the same. Should we build
>> up the code from the very scratch - In that way we learn new ways to
>> build up the same code which may help in coding something similar in
>> a better way, or use the modules whenever/wherever they are available.
>>
>> Any suggestions/opinions will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gunwant Singh.
>>
>> --
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org
>> http://learn.perl.org/
>>
>>
>
>


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I agree with you as well on this !

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Chas. Owens wrote:

> Build from scratch to teach yourself about things, but use the wheels
> already invented for real/production work.
>
> --
> Chas. Owens
> wonkden.net
> The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:53, Gunwant Singh wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a dilmma for the last few days. I read an article about '10 things
>> every Perl hacker should know' (available here:
>> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6077064.h tml).
>>
>> And I was concerned about the point that says NOT to reinvent the wheel. I
>> was just thinking to build up a traversal program for a directory a couple
>> of days ago and then I read this article.Now Perl has so many modules made
>> by 'The Gurus'.And I found one of them "File::Find" which made my work so
>> easy.
>>
>> I wanted to know , what is your opinion on the same. Should we build up
>> the code from the very scratch - In that way we learn new ways to build up
>> the same code which may help in coding something similar in a better way, or
>> use the modules whenever/wherever they are available.
>>
>> Any suggestions/opinions will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gunwant Singh.
>>
>> --
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org
>> http://learn.perl.org/
>>
>>
>>
>
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