| rindolf | Botje: I was retrospecting. |
| Botje | ah. |
| Ani-_ | Randal: are you paying rent? :/ |
| dazjorz | Damn, why do people put a module as a dependency even if they require just one or two or three lines from it. |
| Randal | rent? |
| dazjorz | (IT crowd)++ |
| sole | how do i parse an xml file? |
| dazjorz | (Did you try turning it off and on again?)++ sole: XML::Parser |
| Randal | Oh - it's my standard phrase for "something of reasonable value" |
| Botje | rindolf: my own experiences with ruby suggest that if you're not doing something most people do, it's badly documented and not very searchable (if at all) |
| Randal | "bet the rent money" |
| Ani-_ | Randal: "but I'd bet a month's rent on it" |
| rindolf | Botje: I see. |
| integral | eww, XML::Parser's horrible, XML::LibXML is much better, sole |
| rindolf | Botje: is Perl 5 better in this regard? |
| sole | dazjorz: what is that and where do i get it |
| dazjorz | sole: on CPAN and on CPAN. |
| Botje | rindolf: on the documentation side? immensely. |
| rindolf | Botje: OK. |
| integral | perlbot CPAN |
| dazjorz | sole: I mean |
| perlbot | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (where to download perl modules) is at http://www.cpan.org/, and can be searched with http://search.cpan.org/ |
| dazjorz | sole: It's an XML parser and you can get it on CPAN. |
| integral | perlbot life with CPAN |
| perlbot | Information pertaining to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) can be found at http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/ |
| Botje | ruby's gem system is nice, but not mature enough to compare it to CPAN yet |
| rindolf | Botje: I used to think Perl 5's documentation was bad. |
| Botje | rindolf: do you mean perl 5.0.0 or "modern" perl 5? |
| rindolf | Botje: but maybe it's not too bad. Botje: well, the Perl back then. |
| Botje | oh. haven't used it |
| rindolf | I still remember learning Perl from the perl 5.001 or 5.002 man pages. |
| Botje | but if it were truly bad, it's grown immensely compared to ruby's doc |
| sole | dazjorz: what is cpan i keep hearing about that |
| Randal | I remember learning perl from the 1.0 manpages. :) |
| rindolf | Botje: it was comprehensive and all. |
| dazjorz | perlbot: tell sole about CPAN |
| rindolf | But it relied on knowledge of many Unixisms and stuff. Randal: wasn't there only one. |