Re: CPAN vs Perl 6

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
# from David Golden
# on Tuesday 05 January 2010 15:00:

>> There's nothing wrong with tsv files.
>
>There's nothing wrong with punched cards and slide rules, either.

...except for complexity, lack of speed, accuracy, etc.

If you want to emit a table of information which is known to have no 
embedded tabs, a tsv file with headers is fast and easy to produce and 
consume without special software on either end.

Given the constraint of bootstrap-ability, it seems like you should 
answer "Why not tsv?" before reaching for anything more complicated.

--Eric
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