CPAN

CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is a software repository of over 150,929 modules of software in 33,069 distributions, written by 12,528 authors, written in the Perl programming language, as well as documentation for them. The modules can be downloaded from [https://metacpan.org/ metacpan.org] and also from mirrored sites worldwide. CPAN can denote either the archive network itself, or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager). Most software on CPAN is free and open source software. CPAN was conceived in 1993 and active online since October 1995