in reply to Hello World for module writers

Please consider:

h2xs -ACPX -n Hello::World -v 1.0);

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h2xs is part of the Perl kit and will make a bare pure perl (no C code) module for you. Fill in your perl code, write some tests, and then: 

perl Makefile.PL
make dist

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