CPAN


Short for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a collection of Internet archives that is a resource for material related to the Perl programming language. CPAN includes:

A listing of Perl modules and their source code
Documentation for Perl and Perl modules
Distributions of Perl
Information about Perl and module authors
Hints for programming in Perl
Guidelines for submitting material to CPAN.

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