Have at it

Jonathan Stowe jns at integration-house.com
Wed Jan 28 10:46:07 GMT 2009


2009/1/28 Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org>:
> Ovid wrote:
>> Rather than focusing on advanced tools and modules, I'd focus on
>> advanced techniques.
>
> I've had this debate a hundred times over since sitting down to
> write APP2ed: these days Perl programming is much more about using
> tools well than using the language particularly creatively. The
> techniques you need to know are how to use the tools.
>


That is to say that it is increasingly becoming less about
"programming" at all and more about scripting or configuring whatever
the application framework du jour might be.

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