I think you're taking it too personally, and over-reacting a bit on your own. Frankly, the attitude that you showed in your comment ("I would rather depend on my own bugs, instead of someone else's bugs") is a very irritating one for those of us who have been around Perl for a while and would like to see it respected as a powerful and mature language. Standardizing on good ways to do things, and working as a group to use and improve CPAN are the best things you can do to promote Perl as a legitimate alternative to Java and ASP.NET. I would much rather see 50 snippets that use CPAN modules in a clever way than 50 snippets that try to avoid using them and end up duplicating functionality.