> I mean, looking at http://modulecounts.com the module count for those languages go up like crazy.

Better don't confuse quantity with quality.

Gem seems to have plenty of orphaned alpha stuff because publishing seems to be very easy and hipsters are encouraged to reinvent the wheel, just with two or three strokes of monkey patching and no testing.

I mean should we encourage people to upload plenty of empty distributions with cryptic names?

And PyPi is far from CPAN.

See http://davidrobins.net/?idx=4305 for a decent comparison!

He's a nice exception to the usual pythonistas spreading FUD, this community has a high ratio of fundamentalists.(at least I can't avoid meeting them)

Please don't misunderstand me, it's always good to learn from others and I like a lot about Python & Guido.

But don't underestimate the benefits of Perl culture and a decent community.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^3: Would you stay with Perl if there were no CPAN? by LanX
in thread Would you stay with Perl if there were no CPAN? by sedusedan

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