Welcome to the 4th annual Favourite modules listing thread!

I think that after 2002, 2003, and 2004, you know the drill and the reason1. Let's list our current favourite modules!

Unfortunately, I have not used Perl as much as I would have liked the past 12 months. There is only one addition to my list, and it's a very exciting module by xmath that has made some neat features in DBIx::Simple possible2 and can really speed up some operations.

  1. Data::Alias, that aliases where perl would normally copy.
  2. LWP
  3. B::Deparse
  4. WWW::Mechanize, used it a lot this year
  5. DBD::SQLite, although theoretically this can't be above DBI, the new version of the SQLite library itself is so great, it bumps up the DBD as well
  6. Carp
  7. DBI, up just because I've used it more than the next three
  8. Template
  9. File::Slurp, which now properly handles dynamic files with reported sizes of 0, like /proc/cpuinfo
  10. Benchmark

What are YOUR favourite modules in current time and space?

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

1 If you really don't see the point, read the older versions of this thread. You WILL discover some exciting modules you hadn't used before!
2 To be honest, that was Data::Swap, but Data::Alias has taken over its features, adding the all new and shiny alias.

In reply to Favourite modules March 2005 by Juerd

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