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-LW  Comment on  Let me explain what I mean by "insecure".
Never needing to look outside our own box to find a solution
sounds like a good thing (and it is), but after years of not
having to look elsewhere for solutions, I found myself
questioning whether I was missing out!  It is so rare that I
come across a coding problem that requires more than 2 minutes
searching CPAN before I discover a solution (or several!).
Rare. Maybe too rare. So rare in fact that I feel insulated from
the rest of the coding world. I have never come across a problem
I could not solve with Perl.  The added bonus of direct access
to the source code of CPAN modules has given me an accelerated
learning path (compared with Java or .NET) - further
perpetuating the cycle of Perl-only knowledge. Or is it?  I
happen to work at a 50/50 Microsoft/OSS shop where everything
*we* write is written in VB, and anything *I*