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chromatic on July 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today

The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply.

Somehow Perl 5 made CPAN possible (and by deliberate language design), so that guy in a kilt seems truly a Scotsman to me.

loewenskind on July 20, 2010 [–]

Confusing response. If you want to get down to it, CPAN doesn't really provide much more functionality than what you can get in most other languages and provides less than what Java has. CPAN has a tremendous amount of duplication, has a fair amount of toy code, etc., etc.

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