Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail. is always beneficial, but in this case, > it has all been done by someone else who gives us full rights to his/her > code. > than the existing one.) > I know discussion and testing etc. CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3 CVE-2001-0815: 1 Activestate: 1 Activeperl: : 7.5 HIGH: N/A: Buffer overflow in PerlIS.dll in Activestate ActivePerl 5.6.1.629 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request for a long filename that ends in a. > seriously, why not just use the HTML modules which other kind people have > taken the time to create, test and debug and which thousands of other > programmers have looked over and criticised and contributed to their > improvement? > Why reinvent the wheel? (And as we all know, rarely is the new wheel > I don't mean to be rude, and I don't know if I'm missing something here, Tell me if the new wheel is indeed rarely better than the existing one: Person(s) that did the HTML::Parse module, only that it was possible in thisĬase to use regexes to match the body tag, compare the two wheels below and It took severalĭays because I didn't have the time to sit down and for that long and do it.Īnd although I am not claiming to be have done a better job than the This is only, what, three or four hours of work maximum. You may have thought it was too much of a pain in the back, but it wasn't. They may now use/adjust the code without having Into their minds or even convinced them otherwise. Wasn't possible you use regexes to match a body tag hopefully I put a doubt You learn a great deal by doing things yourself. However, this is no excuse no to use your own Yes, CPAN hasĮverything you will ever need. The invention of OO is the best thing that has happened to computerĮverything or almost has already been done by someone else. Those who say they don't like using modules are in denial. That was my point,įor those who dislike modules, seriously, what kind of deadlines are yourīosses (or customers, for the self employed) setting for you? I feel that Reliable than the corresponding module on CPAN? Honestly. Furthermore, for those who don't use modules and code itĪll themselves, how many can honestly say that their work is more stable and For example, that new wheel wouldn't really be suited forĬarrying around a horse cart now, would it? Those wheels are used forĭifferent purposes. Same OS's, on the same computer systems, using the same language etc. Parsing) in the exact same context here - processing the same HTML, on the Sentence was taken too literally, but we're talking about two wheels (HTML Roads (akin to different other languages, modules, libraries). With different other machinery (akin to operating systems) and on different But you failed to mention that the two wheels operated inĭifferent societies (akin to different computer systems), in conjunction Now go away and use your other brain cells for the other 100 tasksĪs for the two pictures you sent, true - the newer wheel is much moreĪdvanced. That "Hey, there you go, there's what you wanted to get that part of the jobĭone. It's actually using your brain cells to tell you Using your own brain cells - hmm - using modules is NEVER an excuse for not
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