I was saying to Tim and Dan the other day about how I thought it would be difficult for a single developer to keep up with the all the Jakata project and Java standard libraries but maybe it is very important to make the effort to do this, as this quote from Tony Bowden indicates:
A Perl programmer, for example, who has a deep knowledge of what's available on the CPAN and who has the basic competence to write the glue code that ties together 5 or 6 different modules will, for 90% of the projects in which Perl is used, be at least 10 times more productive, and produce much more maintainable and accurate code, than an 'expert' Perl programmer who knows enough to write all this himself (and so does so).Posted by stuartcw at August 26, 2002 11:06 AM