Damian Conway on Perl and its future

Re:Damian Conway on Perl and its future by whopa on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @01:40PM (#1378024)

There's a lot of CPAN activity, but my impression is that a lot of it seems confined to only a handful of problem domains. There's tons of choice with date libraries, or OO frameworks, or unit test frameworks, but other languages have solutions for that too.

For all the talk of CPAN being so killer, there actually isn't much there that other languages don't also have. There may be more choice in implementation of a fairly common concept, but that's the Perl way. The "aha, I'll use Perl because this CPAN module implements exactly what I want, and nobody else does" moment rarely happens.

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Re:Damian Conway on Perl and its future by expeditious on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @10:25PM (#1379333)

> There's a lot of CPAN activity, but my impression is that a lot of it seems confined to only a handful of problem domains.

You can see a list of recent uploads here: http://www.cpan.org/RECENT.html

> There's tons of choice with date libraries,

Most everyone uses DateTime.

> or OO frameworks,

Nowadays choosing this one is simple: Moose

> or unit test frameworks

Test::More is pretty standard.

> For all the talk of CPAN being so killer, there actually isn't much there that other languages don't also have.

That is approximately the opposite of my experiences with the CPAN.

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