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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by thomasmallen on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @06:07PM (#384994)
Let's be honest, there's much more Perl code in the wild than Python, and CPAN towers over any Python network. The knowledge base is far greater for Perl as well (there are books on the DBI alone).

Of course, I'd rather code Python usually.

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by charcoal on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:39PM (#385315)
The Python version of the CPAN is called ["PyPI"](http://pypi.python.org/pypi). It was formerly called the "Cheeseshop".

From the PyPI front page: "There are currently 5256 packages here." According to cpan.org, the CPAN is up to "14749 modules" -- dunno how many distributions that makes though.

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by chorny on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:41PM (#397629)
It's 14793 distributions and x3 modules.
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by chaostheory on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @09:31PM (#385204)
yeah that's why I've been converting any Perl apps I've been assigned to Python hehe
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