[COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019

[Paul Palmer]

This is true but if you can run CPAN shell (I think it's called) it takes
care of this for you.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 3:43 PM Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF <
coff at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:

> Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen at firemail.de> writes:
>
> >> I work in Python for my day job.  Every day I use PyPi, the third-party
> >> package repository, and every time I do I miss CPAN.  Sure, there was a
> >> lot of crap in CPAN but the repository itself was well organized.
> > I agree. The perl package system is very good.
>
> The package system may have been good, but what I remember most clearly
> from working with it is how the dependencies would always get in each
> others' way.  "This package depends on version 0.0.3a of pl-foo, but
> also on this other package, which in turn depends on version 0.0.3b of
> pl-foo, and of course 0.0.3a and 0.0.3b have completely incompatible
> APIs, so you're screwed."
>
> That's probably the start of the path leading to Docker, right there.
>
> -tih
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> cpan. cpanic. cpandemonium.
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