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>>>>> "David" == David Rush <kumo@bellsouth.net> writes:
David> Alex Shinn <foof@synthcode.com> writes:
>> >>>>> "MJ" == MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
MJ> How are you defining success? To me, CPAN tends to look rather
MJ> like the librarians were asleep while stock intake occurred. If
MJ> we can avoid that problem, we will have done well.
>>
>> Success in managing 3584 module names, and having those names
>> mostly make sense and be easy to use.
David> Err... sensibility of the names and usability of the code are
David> orthogonal issues, aren't they?
Sorry, that was ambiguous... I meant usability of the names. I did add
right afterwards that I made no claims about the quality of the code :)
A name could make sense but not be very "usable," if it were hard to
remember or just overly long.
--
Alex