Hi all, On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:15:56 +1000 "Owen" <rc...@pcug.org.au> wrote:
> > > Hello, > > So I have been using perl for about 9 months and I understand the > > syntax > > fairly well. However I feel like I'm missing most of Perl with CPAN, > > sure I > > know the basic modules but is there any mailing list or website that > > regularly features useful modules? > > > > There is spam free news group, comp.lang.perl.announce that puts out a > posting every day listing a sample of about 50 modules. > > If you read that every day, you will get the idea of what is what. > > Also http://search.cpan.org/ is the home site that allows you to > search for modules. As a general rule, http://metacpan.org/ is better than http://search.cpan.org/ , and it is also free and open source software ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software ). Otherwise, I can second the recommmendation of the old Perl Advent Calendars - http://perladvent.pm.org/archives.html - and other Perl-related Advent calendars (note: I have contributed to one of them during one year), and also see: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ * http://www.catalyzed.org/2009/07/finding-stuff-on-the-cpan.html Finall, I'd like to ask the original poster (Danny): why do you want to start using CPAN? While it's not a bad idea, normally you should turn to a CPAN module when there isn't a good way to do it with core Perl. In general, one should avoid over-engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_ain%27t_gonna_need_it Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Editors and IDEs - http://shlom.in/IDEs It does not mean what I think it means, but it means what *you* think it means. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
