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from http://cpan.org

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 120,503 Perl modules in 27,343 distributions, written by 10,570 authors, mirrored on 270 servers.

from https://pypi.python.org/pypi

The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language. There are currently 30088 packages here.

from wikipedia:

How to Lie with Statistics

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^3: Perl. The comparison to other languages. (module != distro)
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2013 at 14:37 UTC

    from ...

    The cited source denies the existence of these CPAN-like things

    And you're just quoting the same numbers they quoted, where is the lie?

      Seems like I was wrong! Mea culpa! :(

      I got confused by ambiguous definitions of the term "package" in Python and when browsing thru Gems I had the impression to see only bare modules.

      Maybe it's just me or a matter of practice but neither PyPi nor Gems seem to have the usability of CPAN.

      Striked the lie.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

      update

      anyway digging deeper into the differences of CPAN, PyPi and Gems reveals a huge quality advantage.

      just read some of the hits for CPAN vs PyPi