Frankly, the notion that I need to download an external module in order to do something as basic as finding the largest element of a list seems just bizarre. I

Frankly, the notion that I need to download an external module in order to do something as basic as finding the largest element of a list seems just bizarre. It should seem bizarre, because no one ever argues that. I think the perl community works incredibly hard at writing lots of CPAN modules to try and correct for perl's defects. The module of greatest use to me today allows me to iterate through cells in a spreadsheet. Is it really a defect in a language that something like Spreadsheet::Parse Excel or Apache POI exists?