Re: Mining the hidden gems of CPAN

[valdez]

in reply to Mining the hidden gems of CPAN

I realized two or three years ago that CPAN has answers for nearly everything. Now my first duty in the morning is a visit to the recent uploads page, where sometimes I discover something new, interesting and useful.

Another wonderful meta index for CPAN is Perlmonks itself; questions posted here are a good way to learn about modules and possible uses of them; moreover, sometimes answers given here suggest many different modules. Can you imagine a better way to learn something? :)

I had a lot of experiences like yours: CGI.pm, HTML::Template, Config::General, CGI::Application, Date::Calc...

Ciao, Valerio

[RMGir]

Yup, valdez, I do the same.

I've found some fun stuff that way, like Regex::PreSuf.
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Mike

[dwiz]

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