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Fantastic "hey, perl is not dead" article, and read it just as I was hunkering down to do some AWS automation with perl. What has always impressed me is the co
by jamespitts 14y ago
Fantastic "hey, perl is not dead" article, and read it just as I was hunkering down to do some AWS automation with perl.
What has always impressed me is the consistency and quality of the documentation of most CPAN modules. There's a huge group of people working at improving perl infrastructure and they don't get half the credit that they deserve!
Some examples:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~melo/Redis/lib/Redis.pm http://search.cpan.org/~melo/Redis/lib/Redis.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit/ http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit/
http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose/ http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose/
It is just ridiculous. Searching around CPAN can become an odyssey.
- phaylon 14y agoJust wanted to ask if you know about MetaCPAN[1]? It has a nice list of modules people "upvoted"[2] :) [1] https://metacpan.org/ https://metacpan.org/ [2] https://metacpan.org/favorite/leaderboard https://metacpan.org/favorite/leaderboard
- jamespitts 14y agoYeah, metacpan is a killer interface to CPAN. But it really comes down to the efforts of the individual module maintainers to create all of that great documentation.
- swuecho 14y ago>consistency and quality of the documentation of most CPAN modules I agree with this. Is there any language that can compete with perl in documentation? For some big modules, they even have special tutorial for you.