Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway?
by dagw on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:50AM
(#2230715)
Chances are whatever you need to do, someone has written a module for it
This used to be a big argument for Perl 10-12 years ago when I was actively working in Perl, and one of the things I kind of missed when I first switched to python. However I've found that many languages have caught up with (and in some areas surpassed) Perl in this regard over the past decade. What CPAN libraries are there today that are class leading and for which no reasonable equivalent exist for other languages?
This used to be a big argument for Perl 10-12 years ago when I was actively working in Perl, and one of the things I kind of missed when I first switched to python. However I've found that many languages have caught up with (and in some areas surpassed) Perl in this regard over the past decade. What CPAN libraries are there today that are class leading and for which no reasonable equivalent exist for other languages?