not trying to be funny, but if you think the tutorials are a little out of date, and are trying to learn the ropes in that area, then you're actually in a pretty good position to update them and give a little something back to the monastery ;) Just post your draft in Meditations with "RFC: <title>" in the title field.
That still leaves the question of which one is better. Since both are included in ActivePerl releases now core modules* (at least as of 5.10.1) they should both be reasonable for most tasks.
* Small assumption there, my apologies.
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Since both are now core modules (at least as of 5.10.1)
I've got 5.10.1 installed and don't see those anywhere. Also, they are not listed at http://perldoc.perl.org/index-modules-H.html. It doesn't look they are actually core Perl modules.
Thanks for the advice about writing a tutorial. May try that.