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Category: Best Perl Module

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cpan-the-man dept.

Any perl hacker will tell you that CPAN is where its at. Its like having God's toolbox available to you, with all the hammers and nails you need to practice all the princibles of good perl programming (my favorite is laziness)! This award goes to the perl module that you couldn't live without. Or maybe its just a super sweet hack. Whatever, if its in CPAN, its eligible... its just up to you to nominate it.

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  1. DBI.pm by volsung · · Score: 2

    Databases + Perl = Nirvana.

  2. CPAN.pm by jamiemccarthy · · Score: 2
    The CPAN module isn't the most clever or the biggest or most mind-bogglingly complicated you can't believe anyone ever wrote it. (I'd nominate MakeMaker in the latter category :-)

    What CPAN.pm does is bridge the gap between your desktop perl code and the rest of the world, with both elegance and great functionality. The CPAN itself, in collaboration with CPAN.pm, has made perl the first popular programming language that lives and breathes on the internet.

    Jamie McCarthy

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  3. Net::* by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 2

    The Net:: bundle does everything from DNS lookups, sending email (Net::SMTP), FTP, NNTP, etc. etc.