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From: Keith Keller on 20 Jul 2010 15:03
On 2010-07-20, OwlHoot <ravensdean(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. What is your favourite Perl CPAN module?

I have to admit that, while I agree with what everyone's said, my
favorite module (or really, set of modules) is the LWP bundle. Between
that and HTML::TreeBuilder you can handle many types of requests that
reside on a remote machine. (You need to go farther now that AJAX is
becoming more and more common.)

> and please feel free to suggest other "interviewy" kinds of
> questions relating to CPAN. Perhaps that will be more
> useful than anything - Answering questions I haven't even
> thought of asking!

One obvious question, which I've used in the past, would be "how often
do you use CPAN?" If it's not very often, I can speculate that the
person is writing a lot of his own code instead of using what's already
out there.

--keith

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From: sln on 20 Jul 2010 15:59
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:03:30 -0700, Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

>One obvious question, which I've used in the past, would be "how often
>do you use CPAN?" If it's not very often, I can speculate that the
>person is writing a lot of his own code instead of using what's already
>out there.
>
>--keith

If often, I can speculate the person doesen't know how to write
code and shouldn't be considered a developer.

-sln
From: Abigail on 24 Jul 2010 11:27
Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
> One obvious question, which I've used in the past, would be "how often
> do you use CPAN?" If it's not very often, I can speculate that the
> person is writing a lot of his own code instead of using what's
> already
> out there.
>

Or the person is mostly writing business logic specific
to their work. At $WORK I hardly use CPAN modules.


Abigail
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