From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T23:46:11+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
>   The important thing about Perl is that we have a culture of writing
> good libraries. No Perl programmer would write a few lines of code,
> post it to a blog, and call it a "library". Everyone feels obligated
> to create a CPAN distribution, with documentation (sometimes a bit on
> the minimal side, but not everyone is a writer), a test suite, a
> Makefile, etc. I'm not sure why, but this always happens. I think it's
> because there is a strong convention, and tools that make following
> the convention easy.

I've always liked the Perl documentation conventions.  Particularly
the fact that *every* CPAN manpage starts with a Synopsis which
demonstrates the essential usage of the library in a few lines of
code.

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