>There is some question whether CTAN (for TeX) or CPAN was the first big library. I'm not in this space, but the similarity in names made me wonder if these wo

>There is some question whether CTAN (for TeX) or CPAN was the first big library. I'm not in this space, but the similarity in names made me wonder if these would really have started around the same time, with an unclear "dependency order", so I reached for a search engine, and according to Wikipedia, CPAN (1993) is based on CTAN (1992).