> I have no idea what the CPAN of today is like, but back in the mid-late 90's it was horribly unreliable. There were dozens, if not hundreds of modules that di

> I have no idea what the CPAN of today is like, but back in the mid-late 90's it was horribly unreliable. There were dozens, if not hundreds of modules that did the same thing, and a lot of them had major bugs. Well, the main change is that between then and now, other languages have setup modules depositories / package managers which are even more of a mess, so in comparison CPAN doesn't look bad any more. :-)