the article says:

Fourth, library quality and usefulness (more subjective here). There’s a lot of overlap and, well, cruft on CPAN. There are over 300 Acme (joke) modules.
well, that reminds me of a famous quote of merlyn: 
SuperGumby> OH, and reading this group daily (if only it wasn't quite 
+so busy).
SuperGumby> PS Why does it appear perl programmers are so damned obses
+sed with
SuperGumby> oneliners, I'm feeling as if I'm gonna be ostracised for c
+ommenting and
SuperGumby> structuring,,, maybe I'll know why in a few months :-)

Because Perl's so durn easy to use we got time to play around impressi
+ng
each other. :)

[download]
(at comp.lang.perl.misc)

so even the number of libraries/modules doesn't tell you how great a repository is. in perl, many things aren't needed which are in other languages (and probably the other way round).

just adding this as another thought.

In reply to Re: RubyForge vs CPAN: Is Perl's Killer Feature Being Usurped? by tinita
in thread RubyForge vs CPAN: Is Perl's Killer Feature Being Usurped? by Anonymous Monk

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