How about this: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cpan.org+rubygems.org+python-eggs.org http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cpan.org+rubygems.org+python-e... CPAN's pop

How about this: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cpan.org+rubygems.org+python-eggs.org http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cpan.org+rubygems.org+python-e... CPAN's popularity vs other language module distribution systems could probably explain why perl is a lot less searched for: most of the typical programming problems have already been solved, tested and smoked in perl. Writing perl these days boils down to integrating things from CPAN, and you don't need the funky characters to do that.