"CPAN" SIG?

[Fred Pacquier]

kragen at dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker) said :

>Quite the contrary; CPAN is one of the strongest arguments for using
>Perl in most situations.

Indeed.

>I would like to note that Python has lots of stuff in the standard
>library you'd have to download from CPAN, which means you can find it
>by looking in the index to the library manual under things like
>'basename' and 'http'.  So the situation with Python is not as dire.

It _can_ be hard to track down some of the more specialized stuff, however.

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