Perl used to, but I'd say not anymore at this point. Many of the big Perl names long moved on; CPAN is full of abandoned modules. And the world doesn't sit sti

Perl used to, but I'd say not anymore at this point. Many of the big Perl names long moved on; CPAN is full of abandoned modules. And the world doesn't sit still. So as time goes by, there's more and more risk of you finding out that some Perl module you're using no longer works. It may not build because of API changes in the C library, or the API of some web service changed, or there isn't an API at all for some pretty big thing that showed up 3 years ago. That didn't use to be the case.