Chapter 12. Modules and the CPAN
Scene: A Level 3 JAPH named Alexis is describing the fallout from her latest customer demo to a sympathetic colleague.
You wouldn’t believe it! Just when I had finally satisfied all of the customer’s stated requirements, he insisted on having Yet Another New Feature—specifically, support for Precursive Frobination of Defragulations (PFD). So I went back to my cubicle and started coding the algorithm, when I was struck by a strange feeling of déjà vu ...
Like Alexis, every programmer who sits down to write code will someday experience a creepy feeling that she’s solved this problem before. There are at least three logical explanations ...
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