What happened to Pirate speak?

GrandFather has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I stumbled over one of my old nodes (A little introducation to piratical Perl me hearties) while looking for something else and thought "that looks fun", what does it do? So I tried to install Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl using cpan Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl. CPAN searched the seven seas and found nary a trace of it!. I asked metacpan about it, and it came up with the same empty vast vistas. A Google search for 'Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl' turns up https://metacpan.org/release/HEX/Acme-Lingua-Pirate-Perl-0.13/view/lib/Acme/Lingua/Pirate/Perl.pm, but otherwise this module seems to have disappeared into Davy Jones. Anyone know why?

BTW: using the link above I figured out what it does, but I'll leave that as a slightly interesting exercise for the interested.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

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Re: What happened to Pirate speak? by hv (Prior) on Mar 21, 2022 at 23:25 UTC
The backpan is useful for this sort of thing: see HEX	[reply]
Re: What happened to Pirate speak? by etj (Priest) on Mar 23, 2022 at 13:46 UTC
As alluded by hv, this is because the module then got deleted from PAUSE and therefore CPAN. But it still exists on BackPAN, which is how MetaCPAN is able to give that information you linked to.	[reply]