I think the point about CPAN is that there is no single place where you can load up on Java packages. I'm sure with enough time on Google, you could probably find Java equivilents to many popular CPAN modules. In some cases, CPAN modules were even directly inspired by Java packages (Log::Log4perl, for instance). But it's spread all over the Internet instead of one easy-to-search place. And there is no Java equivilent for saying "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo::Bar'".

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

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