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06.25.08
CPAN Touted As Perl High Point
 By
Doug Caverly
It's easy to get lost in your own little programming world, focusing on one task after anther without regard for whatever else is going on. Here's a reminder, though, that the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN, is a great resource.
As opposed to being some dusty collection of informative pages, CPAN is an active community. Its members may be wishing as much as anybody for Perl 6 to finally appear, but that hasn't stopped them from paying attention to the current version.
Reuven Lerner writes, "Indeed, looking at the CPAN site is a great way to realize that Perl is far from dead. Looking at the 'recent updates' page on CPAN shows that each day over the last week, there were more than 30 updates or new modules uploaded to CPAN."
Update frequency isn't all CPAN has going in its favor, either; update usefulness ranks high. Khurt Williams states, "[Many] a time I have been given a problem to solve with a very tight deadline and no time to 'write a lot of code'. CPAN has saved my ass numerous times."
Lurk or contribute as you like. At any rate, CPAN is something that should probably be a bookmark on every Perl programmer's computer.
About
the Author:
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