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• The sad truth (Score:2, Funny)

  by Robrt (1414)

  Or more than one of both.

  Don't forget an email-address parser.
• Woo Hoo! (Score:1)

  by chaoticset (2105)

  Hey, I accidentally hand-rolled a templating system back during my CGI 231 class! YAY!

  Now I just need to write a slideshow-er...

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• Getting Smarter (Score:2, Funny)

  by chromatic (983)

  That's why I wrote my own web server [wgz.org].
• One More (Score:2)

  by vek (2312)

  Don't forget the DBI abstraction layer :-)
  • Re:One More (Score:2)

    by inkdroid (3294)

    Yeah, I've noticed this one too. I can understand having a Class to create the DBI handle (no need to remember pwords, usernames, etc), but it seems that everywhere I've worked people want to replace DBI's methods with their own (which simply wrap the basic ones). DBI has everything I've ever wanted to do with a database, and then some. Using DBI makes it easier for new people to come in and know exactly what's going on, without having to understand someone else's idea of what database access *should* be.
    • Re:One More (Score:2)

      by schwern (1528)

      After you've written your 39823th slight variation on the basic SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE statements, it gets a little tiresome.
  • Re:One More (Score:1)

    by barbie (2653)

    There can be good reasons for it.

    The wrapper that I continually reuse, implements a keyword lookup into a Class::Phrasebook XML file. This has meant I have been able to move from MySQL to MS SQL Server 7, by only changing the XML file. Plus my wrapper creates the DBI object for you, but only if you require it. I have seen several implementations of CGI scripts that create a connection, even when the request never uses it.

    Although Class::DBI may be growing in popularity it doesn't suit all purposes, and
• It is the curse... (Score:1)

  by jordan (120)

  of TIMTOWTDI!
  
• another rite of passage... (Score:1)

  by boo_radley (2349)

  "Hey, I could retrieve cartoons from websites with this LWP thingie!" (as discussed on perlmonks a while back)
  • Re:another rite of passage... (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Did that. :) And Randall did it a long time ago in one of his columns, but back then it was retrieving Dilbert from usenet, I think.

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• Its a learning thing... (Score:1)

  by barbie (2653)

  How often have you writen a "hello world" program? Why, everyone and their dog has written one, why write another? The simple answer is that you needed to start somewhere to learn how to program in a certain language. Sometimes you can learn that by doing the little things, like another makeslides script, you find bigger and better things out there that really do fit your requirements, when at first you didn't think they did.

  Others do it simply because their idea of the concept can be quite limited and th
• Through the eyes of database abstraction (Score:2)

  by schwern (1528)

  So I'd written up a big detailed hypothesis about why database object abstraction layers (Class::DBI, Tangram, Alzabo... stuff on top of DBI) keep getting reimplemented because they share a lot of the same attributes and I know something of the POOP (Perl Object-Oriented Persistence) world, being guilty of reinventing that wheel myself with some success. Unfortunately, in a fit of false laziness, I wrote that on my Win98 machine (its only for games, I swear) and it crashed after writing it.

  Reason #19388
• Directory Recursion (Score:2)

  by pne (661)

  Mine was something that went through directories by calling readdir() recursively. (Never mind that there's a core Perl module that can do this for you.)

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