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Dear it in more than one way doing friends,

After Favourite modules March 2002 and Favourite modules April 2003, I think it is time to list my favourite modules for March 2004.

These lists are a very good way to learn about modules you didn't know before. This and other things have influenced my list of favourite modules. The most important reason for the big difference with last year's list is that I used sort to get the modules in a more accurate order.

sort { print "A: $a\nB: $b\n> "; { A => -1, B => 1 }->{uc substr <>, 0, 1} } @foo;

For each choice between modules, I chose the one I liked better. I found that the one I like better isn't always the one that I use more often. According to Perl, this is my list for this year: (As before, excluding pragmata and my own modules)

  1. LWP
  2. B::Deparse
  3. Carp
  4. Template
  5. Benchmark
  6. DBI
  7. DBD::SQLite
  8. WWW::Mechanize
  9. File::Slurp
  10. File::Find::Rule
The modules that were in @foo but didn't make it are (in alphabetical order): Class::DBI, HTML::TreeBuilder, IPC::Run, MIME::Lite, Regexp::Common, Text::Reform.

I'll try to explain the difference with my list of April 2003:

The question for you is the same as always:

What are your favourite modules?

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }