Agreed. I am a Perl refugee. I was so tired of searching CPAN to find ten packages, but some wouldn't install on Windows, and then I would have to evaluate th

Agreed. I am a Perl refugee. I was so tired of searching CPAN to find ten packages, but some wouldn't install on Windows, and then I would have to evaluate the survivors. They would cover sixty percent of the problem, maybe seventy, all different coverages. Now people talk about Python's standard library being "where code goes to die," they want to remove old stuff, makes me sad.