Well, there's "part of perl", and "part of Perl". I think that we can easily say that "Perl" is more than "perl" - Perl includes the community surrounding perl, which most definitely includes CPAN. And ActiveState, and PM, and ...

"Part of perl" gets a bit more tricky, but I would consider it on a case-by-case basis. There's the official perl distribution - anything in that distribution is "part of (official) perl". There's ActiveState - anything there is "part of (ActiveState) perl". There's whatever Oracle ships (I'm not sure - I use DB2) and anything there is "part of (Oracle) perl". There is more than one way to distribute it ;-)

That said, I'm not sure that these details are that important - perl programmers are a pragmatic bunch, so we just use what we have available, and install what we don't but we need. :-)

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