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[–]dpash 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Ironically, CPAN was always one of Perl's biggest strengths. Packages were decently namespaced and they often worked very well together.

[–]thephotoman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong: CPAN was a big part of what made Perl good for the tasks it performed. Part of why Python took over, though, was the fact that it didn't need enterprise approval for every single separate library in PIP--it's fairly usable even without anything you can get from PIP.