Something missing from the history is the existence of the "categorical tree" for CPAN modules, the existence of "registered modules", and the recent destructio

Something missing from the history is the existence of the "categorical tree" for CPAN modules, the existence of "registered modules", and the recent destruction of both of these features, primarily due to lack of people maintaining CPAN ( Brian D Foy got overloaded ). The interface doesn't show any difference currently between modules that were just thrown up willy nilly and those that went through community discussion and review. It could be useful to mention some of the various binary distribution systems in existence pulling from CPAN ( such as Activestate ) One of the sources for some of the information is very interesting though: http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html