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script must be executed thousands of times a day, that 9ms
difference will matter more. <br><br>I use this for a very
lightweight parent class. A richer subclass then uses Moo.
<br><br>Isn't it great that we have the choices and upgrade path
from the very minimal Mo, to Moo for normal cases, to Moos and Moose
for even richer (but heavier) alternatives. Truly TIMTOWTDI! <br>
App::ChangeShebang
Author: SKAJI <https://metacpan.org/author/SKAJI>
Given that the name of this module/app is "change shebang"
(instead of "change shebang to samedir perl") perhaps this
app can be made more generic? For example, I've had to change all
shebangs from "#!/usr/bin/env perl" to "#!perl"
and vice versa. Perhaps this module/app can become a tool to easily
switch between shebangs. <br>
Hash::Ordered
Author: DAGOLDEN <https://metacpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN>
Overall looks ok, with the exception that it does not look and feel
like a regular Perl hash at all. Now someone just needs to create a
tie interface on top of this :) <br>
author should do the mode detailed explaining to help users when to
choose between the two. <br>
Data::CompactDump
Author: MILSO <https://metacpan.org/author/MILSO>
At the current form, simply too simplistic to be an alternative to
Data::Dump or Data::Dumper. No support for blessed refs,
filehandle/globs, circular references, and so on. Changes numbers to
stringy numbers or vice versa. <br><br>Currently also contains some
bugs like for -1 (changes it to string), "\" (produces
invalid dump, does not handle backslash yet currently), <br><br>And
Data::Dump's dump of {} and [] are currently more compact ;-)
<br><br>Need to be improved significantly first. But keep up the
effort.
P Author: LAWALSH <https://metacpan.org/author/LAWALSH>
I personally don't mind the namespace choice. There are other
single-letter CPAN modules too like B, L, U, V. If you have a beef
with regard to namespace, don't single out P and perhaps downvote
uninitialized value") with another ("Wide character in
say/print"). The wide character warning is avoided if you do 'P
"%s", undef' though, which means... <br><br>2) P loads
utf8 by default. For ultra-lightweight cases, this is sometimes not
desirable. There is currently no way to turn this off. <br><br>3)
The arbitrary choice of three levels deep when printing references.
This can be customized but with an unusual syntax. But again, the
arbitrary choice of three. <br><br>4) The "complex" rules
of newline printing. p() is like puts, it can optionally add a
newline. But unlike puts, the doc says it can also remove newlines.
The behavior can also change if the string to be printed ends with
0x83. <br><br>I might use P for a sprintf/printf replacement, but
for debugging values, I'd prefer something "dumber" like
Data::Dump::Color (or Data::Printer, if that's your thing).
Xporter
Author: LAWALSH <https://metacpan.org/author/LAWALSH>
A couple of comments. First, if you want to import the default
exports *as well as* some additional others, you can use Exporter's
feature (the :DEFAULT tag): <br><br>use SomeModule qw(:DEFAULT a b
Filesys::Notify::Simple
Author: MIYAGAWA <https://metacpan.org/author/MIYAGAWA>
It's rather unfortunate that currently the choice for general
purpose cross-platform filesystem notification modules on CPAN falls
between this module (FNS) or File::ChangeNotify (F::CN). The other
CPAN modules are either OS-/framework-specific. <br><br>FNS has a
simple API but is perhaps too simple for some uses, while F::CN uses
Moose and has a big startup overhead. <br><br>If you simply want to
check from time to time whether a change has occured, you need to
wrap the wait() method with alarm(). And I found on my Linux PC that
I need a timeout of at least 3 seconds for this to work reliably.
Rating: 8/10
experimental
Author: LEONT <https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT>
Vote +1 to add this to core. Please make coding in Perl 5 relatively
painless.
Rating: 2/10
WWW::YouTube::Download
Author: OALDERS <https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS>
Works for me too ATM. I've tried several command-line scripts (most
of them Python-based, like youtube-dl, tubenick, etc). Sometimes
they work, sometimes they broke. It's the nature of this kind of
script. The quality comes from persistence. This module has been
maintained since 2009, through several YouTube's changes. I commend
the author, good job, and thanks!
Number::Zero
From the module's POD: "The number zero and undef are difficult
to determine in Perl." <br><br>Are they? <br><br>say
!defined($data) ? "undef" : "not undef";
<br><br>say defined($data) && $data==0 ? "zero" :
"not zero"; # yes, warn if non-numeric <br><br>use
Scalar::Util 'looks_like_number'; <br> say looks_like_number($data)
&& $data==0 ? "zero" : "not zero";
Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the
interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people
that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that
YEARS-old bugs are not being fixed. <br><br>At the time of this
writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) +
the newsletters (minor updates) up to 2006. When it should be
updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the newsletters.
For example, this module does not report 3 newer provinces in
Indonesia. <br><br>Sadly we live in a world where countries and
subcountries change all the time.
Rating: 2/10
Locale::SubCountry
Author: KIMRYAN <https://metacpan.org/author/KIMRYAN>
UPDATE 2012-08-30: I am not sure if the module is now fully
compliant to the new ISO 2007, but bug reports are certainly being
responded and resolved now. Updating rating from 1-star to 4-star.
Thanks, Kim. <br><br>2012-02-17: Review to version 1.47:
<br><br>Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with
the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn
people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that
months-old bugs are not being fixed. <br><br>At the time of this
writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) when
it should be updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the
newsletters (minor updates). For example, this module does not
report 3 newer provinces in Indonesia. <br><br>Sadly we live in a
world where countries and subcountries change all the time.
<br><br>EDIT: Ok, so I was not being clear that I was not talking
about my own bug report (posted at about the same time of this
review). And bugs were certainly being resolved up to about 7 months
ago. <br>
Rating: 8/10
Data::Rmap
Author: BOWMANBS <https://metacpan.org/author/BOWMANBS>
author for writing a short description of why this module is
written, how it is different from others, and suggestion of what
modules users should use. There are a lot of wheels being reinvented
on CPAN, and that's okay, I just wish more people would document the
reason.
Sub::Mage
Author: BRADH <https://metacpan.org/author/BRADH>
Since the first release, there are 13 subsequent releases in total.
What are the changes between releases? No idea, the author doesn't
bother to update Changes (and no public repo is listed). Apparently
all his other modules are also like this. Not very user-friendly.
<br><br>UPDATE 2011-11-22: I see that this has been rectified by the
author, there is now Changes entry for each new release. Cool,
thanks. <br>
relative_lib
Documentation is placed in README.md, so it's inaccessible from
perldoc et al. Why? This is not a Python library.
until necessary.
Date::Manip
Author: SBECK <https://metacpan.org/author/SBECK>
Wow, there are surely a lot of negative reviews ... <br><br>First of
all, Date::Manip has a long history. I used this module back in
2001-2002, IIRC. Back then it was *the* swiss army of date/time
manipulation, something you use when you want the most
flexible/complete thing in Perl. True, it's slow, but it works.
<br><br>But then things change. DateTime project was started, and
now it is somewhat the de facto standard. It's more modern and far
more modular than the monolithic Date::Manip (every timezone and
language support and parsing/formatting modules shipped in one
single distribution). <br><br>And then there's the 5.x -> 6.x
debacle. As someone who also sprinkle Perl 5.10 requirements to his
CPAN modules, I can feel for the author. But the difference is, most
of my modules are not that widely used/known, and also many start
its life already requiring 5.10 right from its first released
version. While in Date::Manip's case, this happens to a very widely
used module. Surely backwards compatibility should be considered
devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/App-ChangeShebang/">0.02</a>)
</h3>
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Given that the name of this module/app is "change shebang" (instead of "change shebang to samedir perl") perhaps this app can be made more generic? For example, I've had to change all shebangs from "#!/usr/bin/env perl" ...
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<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2014-07-05T23:43:48
(<a href="/dist/App-ChangeShebang#11820">permalink</a>)
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devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Data-CompactDump/">0.04</a>)
</h3>
<blockquote class="review_text">
At the current form, simply too simplistic to be an alternative to Data::Dump or Data::Dumper. No support for blessed refs, filehandle/globs, circular references, and so on. Changes numbers to stringy numbers or vice versa.
<br><br>Currently also con...
</blockquote>
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<p class="review_attribution">
<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2014-01-24T10:41:57
(<a href="/dist/Data-CompactDump#11522">permalink</a>)
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devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/P/">1.1.24</a>)
</h3>
<blockquote class="review_text">
I personally don't mind the namespace choice. There are other single-letter CPAN modules too like B, L, U, V. If you have a beef with regard to namespace, don't single out P and perhaps downvote the other modules too.
<br><br>Having said that, I woul...
</blockquote>
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<p class="review_attribution">
<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2014-01-14T11:05:37
(<a href="/dist/P#11516">permalink</a>)
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devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
<img src="//cdn.perl.org/perlweb/cpanratings/images/stars-4.0.png" alt="****">
</h3>
<blockquote class="review_text">
It's rather unfortunate that currently the choice for general purpose cross-platform filesystem notification modules on CPAN falls between this module (FNS) or File::ChangeNotify (F::CN). The other CPAN modules are either OS-/framework-specific.
<br>...
</blockquote>
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<p class="review_attribution">
<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2013-07-04T20:56:05
(<a href="/dist/Filesys-Notify-Simple#11193">permalink</a>)
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<img src="//cdn.perl.org/perlweb/cpanratings/images/stars-5.0.png" alt="*****">
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<blockquote class="review_text">
Works for me too ATM. I've tried several command-line scripts (most of them Python-based, like youtube-dl, tubenick, etc). Sometimes they work, sometimes they broke. It's the nature of this kind of script. The quality comes from persistence. This mod...
</blockquote>
<div class="review_footer">
<p class="review_attribution">
<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2012-11-16T10:32:28
(<a href="/dist/WWW-YouTube-Download#10550">permalink</a>)
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devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
<img src="//cdn.perl.org/perlweb/cpanratings/images/stars-1.0.png" alt="*">
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Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that YEARS-old bugs are not being fixed.
<br><br>At the time o...
</blockquote>
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<p class="review_attribution">
<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2012-02-07T17:07:11
(<a href="/dist/Locale-Geocode#9590">permalink</a>)
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<img src="//cdn.perl.org/perlweb/cpanratings/images/stars-4.0.png" alt="****">
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<blockquote class="review_text">
UPDATE 2012-08-30: I am not sure if the module is now fully compliant to the new ISO 2007, but bug reports are certainly being responded and resolved now. Updating rating from 1-star to 4-star. Thanks, Kim.
<br><br>2012-02-17: Review to version 1.47:...
</blockquote>
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<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2012-02-07T17:04:09
(<a href="/dist/Locale-SubCountry#9588">permalink</a>)
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devdata/stevenharyanto view on Meta::CPAN
(<a href="https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Mage/">0.016</a>)
</h3>
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Since the first release, there are 13 subsequent releases in total. What are the changes between releases? No idea, the author doesn't bother to update Changes (and no public repo is listed). Apparently all his other modules are also like this. Not v...
</blockquote>
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<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2011-11-17T07:05:12
(<a href="/dist/Sub-Mage#9368">permalink</a>)
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<blockquote class="review_text">
Wow, there are surely a lot of negative reviews ...
<br><br>First of all, Date::Manip has a long history. I used this module back in 2001-2002, IIRC. Back then it was *the* swiss army of date/time manipulation, something you use when you want the mos...
</blockquote>
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<a href="/user/stevenharyanto">Steven Haryanto</a> - 2010-10-28T21:46:00
(<a href="/dist/Date-Manip#7802">permalink</a>)
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lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
package Acme::CPANModules::Import::CPANRatings::User::stevenharyanto;
use strict;
our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:PERLANCAR'; # AUTHORITY
our $DATE = '2023-10-29'; # DATE
our $DIST = 'Acme-CPANModules-Import-CPANRatings-User-stevenharyanto'; # DIST
our $VERSION = '0.002'; # VERSION
our $LIST = {description=>"This list is generated by scraping CPANRatings (cpanratings.perl.org) user page.",entries=>[{description=>"\n(REMOVED)\n",module=>"Log::Any",rating=>undef},{description=>"\nProvides a thin/lightweight OO interface for \$?, ...
1;
# ABSTRACT: List of modules mentioned by CPANRatings user stevenharyanto
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
A great alternative when Moo is a bit too much for you. Useful for scripts that must start really fast. Mind you, Moo loads about 5K lines of code and more than a dozen files, all of which takes +- 10ms on my computer. Mo on the other hand is only a ...
<br><br>I use this for a very lightweight parent class. A richer subclass then uses Moo.
<br><br>Isn't it great that we have the choices and upgrade path from the very minimal Mo, to Moo for normal cases, to Moos and Moose for even richer (but heavier) alternatives. Truly TIMTOWTDI!
<br>
=item L<App::ChangeShebang>
Author: L<SKAJI|https://metacpan.org/author/SKAJI>
Given that the name of this module/app is "change shebang" (instead of "change shebang to samedir perl") perhaps this app can be made more generic? For example, I've had to change all shebangs from "#!/usr/bin/env perl" ...
<br>
=item L<Hash::Ordered>
Author: L<DAGOLDEN|https://metacpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN>
Overall looks ok, with the exception that it does not look and feel like a regular Perl hash at all. Now someone just needs to create a tie interface on top of this :)
<br>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
This module is based on WWW::YouTube::Download but its documentation does not yet explain how it differs from WWW::YouTube::Download. From what I see at a glance, App::YTDL supports downloading a video from a playlist and setting download speed limit...
<br>
=item L<Data::CompactDump>
Author: L<MILSO|https://metacpan.org/author/MILSO>
At the current form, simply too simplistic to be an alternative to Data::Dump or Data::Dumper. No support for blessed refs, filehandle/globs, circular references, and so on. Changes numbers to stringy numbers or vice versa.
<br><br>Currently also contains some bugs like for -1 (changes it to string), "\" (produces invalid dump, does not handle backslash yet currently),
<br><br>And Data::Dump's dump of {} and [] are currently more compact ;-)
<br><br>Need to be improved significantly first. But keep up the effort.
=item L<P>
Author: L<LAWALSH|https://metacpan.org/author/LAWALSH>
I personally don't mind the namespace choice. There are other single-letter CPAN modules too like B, L, U, V. If you have a beef with regard to namespace, don't single out P and perhaps downvote the other modules too.
<br><br>Having said that, I would like to comment on the design and implementation of this module.
<br><br>1) The choice of Unicode character U+2204 as representation of undef. Unless one does something like 'binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"', with 'say P undef' I am just trading one warning ("Use of uninitialized value") with another (...
<br><br>2) P loads utf8 by default. For ultra-lightweight cases, this is sometimes not desirable. There is currently no way to turn this off.
<br><br>3) The arbitrary choice of three levels deep when printing references. This can be customized but with an unusual syntax. But again, the arbitrary choice of three.
<br><br>4) The "complex" rules of newline printing. p() is like puts, it can optionally add a newline. But unlike puts, the doc says it can also remove newlines. The behavior can also change if the string to be printed ends with 0x83.
<br><br>I might use P for a sprintf/printf replacement, but for debugging values, I'd prefer something "dumber" like Data::Dump::Color (or Data::Printer, if that's your thing).
=item L<Xporter>
Author: L<LAWALSH|https://metacpan.org/author/LAWALSH>
A couple of comments. First, if you want to import the default exports I<as well as> some additional others, you can use Exporter's feature (the :DEFAULT tag):
<br><br>use SomeModule qw(:DEFAULT a b c);
<br><br>or you can also "use" twice:
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
Rating: 4/10
=item L<Filesys::Notify::Simple>
Author: L<MIYAGAWA|https://metacpan.org/author/MIYAGAWA>
It's rather unfortunate that currently the choice for general purpose cross-platform filesystem notification modules on CPAN falls between this module (FNS) or File::ChangeNotify (F::CN). The other CPAN modules are either OS-/framework-specific.
<br><br>FNS has a simple API but is perhaps too simple for some uses, while F::CN uses Moose and has a big startup overhead.
<br><br>If you simply want to check from time to time whether a change has occured, you need to wrap the wait() method with alarm(). And I found on my Linux PC that I need a timeout of at least 3 seconds for this to work reliably.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<experimental>
Author: L<LEONT|https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT>
Vote +1 to add this to core. Please make coding in Perl 5 relatively painless.
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
Balancing previous glowing reviews. Storable has it faults, for example historically its track record for file format backwards compatibility is poor, making programs fail when loading Storable files after the module is upgraded.
<br><br>Also, more importantly, add builtin support for Regexp object already! It's almost 2013, Regexp object has been around for, what, more than a decade? I can understand not supporting serializing filehandle or coderef, but Regexp object?
Rating: 2/10
=item L<WWW::YouTube::Download>
Author: L<OALDERS|https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS>
Works for me too ATM. I've tried several command-line scripts (most of them Python-based, like youtube-dl, tubenick, etc). Sometimes they work, sometimes they broke. It's the nature of this kind of script. The quality comes from persistence. This mod...
=item L<Number::Zero>
From the module's POD: "The number zero and undef are difficult to determine in Perl."
<br><br>Are they?
<br><br>say !defined($data) ? "undef" : "not undef";
<br><br>say defined($data) && $data==0 ? "zero" : "not zero"; # yes, warn if non-numeric
<br><br>use Scalar::Util 'looks_like_number';
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lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
I don't know why Sawyer X's review is marked as unhelpful (2 out of 8), but I agree with him. This is I<not> an Acme module, it's a port of a JavaScript library of the same name.
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=item L<Locale::Geocode>
Author: L<DIZ|https://metacpan.org/author/DIZ>
Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that YEARS-old bugs are not being fixed.
<br><br>At the time of this writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) + the newsletters (minor updates) up to 2006. When it should be updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the newsletters. For example, this module do...
<br><br>Sadly we live in a world where countries and subcountries change all the time.
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Locale::SubCountry>
Author: L<KIMRYAN|https://metacpan.org/author/KIMRYAN>
UPDATE 2012-08-30: I am not sure if the module is now fully compliant to the new ISO 2007, but bug reports are certainly being responded and resolved now. Updating rating from 1-star to 4-star. Thanks, Kim.
<br><br>2012-02-17: Review to version 1.47:
<br><br>Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that months-old bugs are not being fixed.
<br><br>At the time of this writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) when it should be updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the newsletters (minor updates). For example, this module does not report 3 newer province...
<br><br>Sadly we live in a world where countries and subcountries change all the time.
<br><br>EDIT: Ok, so I was not being clear that I was not talking about my own bug report (posted at about the same time of this review). And bugs were certainly being resolved up to about 7 months ago.
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Rating: 8/10
=item L<Data::Rmap>
Author: L<BOWMANBS|https://metacpan.org/author/BOWMANBS>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
Author: L<BRADH|https://metacpan.org/author/BRADH>
This is just a reimplementation of Test::More. But I thank the author for writing a short description of why this module is written, how it is different from others, and suggestion of what modules users should use. There are a lot of wheels being rei...
=item L<Sub::Mage>
Author: L<BRADH|https://metacpan.org/author/BRADH>
Since the first release, there are 13 subsequent releases in total. What are the changes between releases? No idea, the author doesn't bother to update Changes (and no public repo is listed). Apparently all his other modules are also like this. Not v...
<br><br>UPDATE 2011-11-22: I see that this has been rectified by the author, there is now Changes entry for each new release. Cool, thanks.
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=item L<relative_lib>
Documentation is placed in README.md, so it's inaccessible from perldoc et al. Why? This is not a Python library.
=item L<CPAN::Mini::Webserver>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
<br><br>Imagine serving a web page that fetches 50 rows from database, where for convenience you convert each date column to a DateTime object, and you have 120 requests/sec coming in... That's already 6000 objects (an extra second!).
<br><br>Which is unfortunate because DateTime is so wonderful, convenient, correct, complete and all that. So one approach you can use might be to delay converting to DateTime object until necessary.
=item L<Date::Manip>
Author: L<SBECK|https://metacpan.org/author/SBECK>
Wow, there are surely a lot of negative reviews ...
<br><br>First of all, Date::Manip has a long history. I used this module back in 2001-2002, IIRC. Back then it was I<the> swiss army of date/time manipulation, something you use when you want the most flexible/complete thing in Perl. True, it's slow,...
<br><br>But then things change. DateTime project was started, and now it is somewhat the de facto standard. It's more modern and far more modular than the monolithic Date::Manip (every timezone and language support and parsing/formatting modules ship...
<br><br>And then there's the 5.x -> 6.x debacle. As someone who also sprinkle Perl 5.10 requirements to his CPAN modules, I can feel for the author. But the difference is, most of my modules are not that widely used/known, and also many start its ...
<br><br>All in all, you are free to use or not use Date::Manip. There are other alternatives. Pick wisely.
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Rating: 6/10
=item L<App::pmuninstall>
Author: L<XAICRON|https://metacpan.org/author/XAICRON>
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