Ok, here are just two cents.
If your UNIX host, e.g. running Red Hat, requires more functionality, you'll simply install the proper *.rpm.
If your WinNT server has to have more services - you simply install that one and start it.
If your editor needs more dictionaries for syntax highlightning, you just put it up.
As far as I understood Perl uptil now, its great advantage is it's modularity. You could install a full version of perl, but thus would mean to get all modules from CPAN. And in fact, when we follow the first example, the Red Hat Server Edition ships with a complete CPAN mirror CD.
So a perl module isn't one more car to be maintained, it's just that the engine of the car you already have got tuned :-)
Have a nice day
All decision is left to your taste
Update
To avoid misunderstandings, I've just tried to point out why in my opinion, the installment of a perl module isn't point whether to company policy nor to economic concerns.
All modules together with the core, that is Perl. So, if you decided to use the core, your decision implicated the usage of these modules as well, even if they haven't evn been developed yet. I like the idea, that Perl is the only artfical language that is used and that is growing and changing like a human one.

In reply to RE: Getting managers to accept Perl modules by little
in thread Getting managers to accept Perl modules by Fastolfe

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