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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by zentrus on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @07:42PM (#4040579)
Check this site out for a comparison of the various module counts per language. It is really incredible that rubygems surpassed CPAN last year and continues to grow at a very rapid rate. Quality may be another matter, but still, impressive.

http://www.modulecounts.com/

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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by jonathansizz on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @01:16AM (#4041486)
Except that there's over 107,000 Perl modules on CPAN, and fewer than 40,000 Ruby gems.
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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by adrianhoward on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:42AM (#4041954)
That's not comparing like with like. Gems are the equivalent of CPAN distributions.
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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by adrianhoward on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @08:09PM (#4040679)
Nice site. Well found.

I find it interesting that PHP doesn't have anything in the same league as Perl/Ruby/Python even after all these years.

Any PHP folk out there?

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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by pwaring on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @06:25AM (#4042182)
The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR (http://pear.php.net). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit now that everything is on GitHub (https://github.com/pear/)
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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by milano on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @12:00AM (#4041313)
Composer (with http://packagist.org/) is getting popular in the PHP world.
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Re:Why I Use Perl: Reliability by Aethaeryn on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @10:57PM (#4041161)
They're missing a few languages. For instance, Quicklisp.[1]

[1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

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