Here's my little list:

• Any of the Lingua::* Modules
• Parse::RecDescent - Yes I still haven't really used it.
• Net::AIM / Net::Gnutella / Net::ICQ
• Audio::MPEG and related modules.
• Image::Magick - I Really want to learn how to use this better as well.
• NetPacket
• Chemistry::Elements
• More of the Crypt::* modules.
• WWW::Robot - To see how superior it is to my messy hack.

Update: I really should do some more work with TK as well :).

Heh heh Chemistry, I thought of putting that on, but didn't think many other than ChemBoy would get it.

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Other than a few that you mentioned, here are the ones that I have been putting off using:

1. Parse::RecDescent - I tend to do most of my parsing with split and regex (and specific modules, such as HTML::Parser, etc), and I can usually get what I need done without much problem. However, I often get the feeling that familiarity with Parse::RecDescent could save me tons of work.
2. Win32::* - I work in Windows a lot of the time, and it would be nice to know what I could actually use it for (Windows, I mean) ;)
3. POE - For all of the attention it gets, it HAS to be good, right? :) But seriously, reworking code to use this module might be very handy if I find myself forking off waaaay to many processes.
4. Inline - Because its so damn neat.

More seriously, modules that I want to learn, want to use, or really should learn/use (no order):

• Safe - no excuse to not use.
• Storable - lots of uses for persistence indeed.
• Net::ICQ - must be a cool use. Maybe access the chatterbox from ICQ? *grin*
• One or several (HTML) templating modules/systems. It is embarrasing to do HERE docs or PHP.
• Thread - with my java background, I am indeed interested.
• The IO:: modules - like object-orientation better. :)
• The XML modules - I had lots of trouble with these when on Windows, but now I run Linux fulltime too. Is about time.
• The B:: modules - interesting stuff.
• wxPerl (also thinking to reopen some C++ knowledge to try out wxWindows itself)
• And probably a lot more that I will add here as I remember them...

• SPOPS - i barely scratched the surface of this suite of modules. what i saw was powerful indeed
• Image::Magick - i have tried to install this like 5 times now and fail miserably each time, although i do get just a little closer each time
• POE - this has got to be good stuff
• Net::SSH::Perl - there is no excuse for me not utilizing this suite of modules
• Quantum::Superpositions - mmmmm ... quantum logic gates .... (ghaaaahhh)
• XML::Twig - now that i think i have exhausted XML::Simple ...
• Glade::Perl - but my favorite GUI is a web browser ;)
• bioperl - even if i never do get into Bioinformatics, a case study of bioperl's object design and heirarchy will prove to be enlightening
• Template-Toolkit - although i am still content with HTML::Template

jeffa

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Image::Magick - I have tried to install this like 5 times now and fail miserably each time, although i do get just a little closer each time

I must say I have never managed to install it. Even when it works, after a clean installation of any good Linux distribution, I inevitably manage to break it when I upgrade Perl. I even suspect that I have broken it when upgrading some of the package it uses.

So now I have basically given up on it, I just use system convert ..., which always works, and I am much happier!

I've managed to install it... several times. I thought it'd be great since I've been using ImageMagick itself lots earlier, but I never got Image::Magick to work properly. I felt it was both poorly documented, if at all, and really buggy. I also resorted to system commands, because it just works and "good enough". :) It was a while ago though, so maybe I'll give it yet another shot. Maybe.

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You have moved into a dark place.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

I'm also intending to look at SPOPS and Mason.
SPOPS looks very interesting to me as it seems to model a lot of what I want in an app framework.

Cheers
Cheshire Cat *8-)

My list of modules is currently:

• GD
• Soap::Lite
• LWP
• GnuPG
• OpenFrame
• Tk for anything apart from trivial apps

That's just for starters. I could probably thing of many more.

My attitude to modules is to learn and use them on an as-and-when required basis. This does mean I have to expend time searching to see if I am re-inventing the wheel before putting finger to keyboard, but it means that my appreciation of modules is from a practical standpoint - and this is changing as I look at how one prepares modules for CPAN publication.

If you want to get your hands dirty with Soap::Lite you could play with the PGAS Web Service.

--Dave

• XML::RSS
• CGI::Application
• HTML::Template

• xwPerl
• Image::Magick
• Crypt::*
• XML::*
• Soap::Lite
• HTML::Embperl
• Net::SSH::Perl
• Win32::GUI (when i finish with the others)

PDL stands for Perl Data Language . To say it with the words of Karl Glazebrook, initiator of the PDL project: The PDL concept is to give standard perl5 the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. e.g. $a=$b+$c can add two 2048x2048 images in only a fraction of a second.

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ooo  O\O  ooo tilly was here :,(

I found (GUI) Windows Programming FAQ a very good read for comparisons of that and more, and I am also leaning towards wxPerl (goes to update earlier answer).

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You have moved into a dark place.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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Devel::Trace

Devel::TraceMethods (which I reinvented once)

Net::Dict

XML::TokeParser - oh how I love this one ;)

Parallel::ForkManager - i no want to think about forking semantics (i don't need IPC)

and last but not least, japhys YAPE dists.

update: right, well with less than a month of usage, I felt they qualified.
 

Look ma', I'm on CPAN.

This node wasn't really meant to mention modules you actually already use :)

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