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Re:Why Perl? by kablamo on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:19AM (#3238730)
There are lots of great languages. I think we can learn from each other. Perl has a lot of problems but also a lot of strengths. CPAN is one of its strengths.

Compare CPAN: https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Manual

Then compare with other repositories from other languages: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1693529/list-of-top-repos...

CPAN does

* Documentation

* Historical versions of libraries

* Search

* Source code

* Integrated bug tracker

* Integrated review system

* Links to repositories

* Integrated automated tests regularly run against hundreds of machines/operating systems/perl versions.

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Re:Why Perl? by draegtun on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:52AM (#3238886)
And also there is:

* CPAN Forum - http://cpanforum.com/

* Annotated CPAN - http://www.annocpan.org/

* Discussion/review on pre CPAN modules - http://prepan.org/

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Re:Why Perl? by mikeryan on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:39AM (#3238828)
Sure but 99% of what I want is something that A. Has a library I want and B. can install it easily.

All those bells and whistles are nice. But they're not something I'm basing my technology stack on because most of the time theyre not something I need.

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