CPAN might be perfect now, but it wasn't always golden. The fact that every module relies upon dozens of other modules meant that your life sucked when one of t

CPAN might be perfect now, but it wasn't always golden. The fact that every module relies upon dozens of other modules meant that your life sucked when one of the dependencies crapped out during an ubermodule install. You'd have to trace down where, what and why the dependency was broken and the idiosyncratic nature of Perl didn't help much with fixing things. Tearing my hair out during another aborted CPAN install was one of the reasons I switched to Python in 2001. Python came with its own set of issues but at the time they seemed more appealing than dealing with amateur hour on CPAN.