Multiple wheels (white-wall, street slicks, nobby), ISA Good Thing. An ad hoc name space is not. I have often longed for a bit more sense in the CPAN namespace, but I'd still rather have it in it's current form vs. the totalitarian schemes used in some other languages.

You best bet in finding modules is either to familiarize yourself with CPAN at some point and keep tabs on it, or use either http://search.cpan.org or http://kobesearch.cpan.org. Google should be a last resort, only in hopes of finding a module which does not live on CPAN.

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In reply to Re: Is CPAN usable now? by belg4mit
in thread Is CPAN usable now? by powerman

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