[Cialug] Tasks for learning shell scripting

[Jeff Chapin]

But to many people, CPAN is a pain to work with and install modules.
While the modules it has are nice, it's added complexity -- and it is
complexity that does not always fit well with the existing package
management software. I know a few Perl programmers that can use yum/apt
but when it comes to getting CPAN to install what they want, they
sometimes struggle -- system administration is not their strong point.

Jeff

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On 2010-09-29 at 10:34:34, Josh More wrote:
>   
>> More seriously, Perl's biggest drawback is CPAN.
>>     
>
> Is "drawback" really the word you were looking for?
>
> I think Perl's biggest strength is CPAN, actually. That's what keeps me 
> programming in Perl and not some other language. For almost anything 
> that i don't feel like coding myself, there's a module to do it for me. 
> And for the few modules i want to use that aren't available as a Debian 
> package, CPAN makes it trivial to install them and keep them updated.
>
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