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The Rise of Better is Worse (Score:1)

by chromatic (983) on 2010.03.05 17:20 (#71755) Homepage Journal

I remember that before Module::Build could replace MakeMaker, it had to do things MakeMaker didn't do well, if at all (else all it had to do was crib PREFIX support).
Fortunately not everyone believes that the complexity of a system remains constant (and many people believe that removing 90% of the pain of an existing system is sometimes worth increasing pain 10% in a few other cases).

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