On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Not really. The saving grace wrt/CPAN is that for some reason nearly
> all Perl modules have documentation, it's all in the same format, and
> CPAN lets you browse it on the web. That's often enough to
> distinguish the good stuff from the crap. IMHO, if it weren't for
> that, it would be worthless.
search.cpan.org has been fantastic for the success of CPAN, but CPAN was pretty successful before that site came along.
Best,
David