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3 unusual facts about CPAN


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The Acme:: hierarchy is reserved for joke modules; for instance, Acme::Don't adds a don't function that doesn't run the code given to it (to complement the do built-in, which does).

Distributions on the CPAN are divided into 24 broad chapters based on their purpose, such as Internationalization and Locale; Archiving, Compression, And Conversion; and Mail and Usenet News.

Maidenhead Locator System

Perl supports conversion between geographical coordinates and Maidenhead locators in module Ham::Locator by Andy Smith, available on CPAN.


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Jarkko Hietaniemi

Jarkko Hietaniemi is a Finnish Perl programmer best known as the creator and "master librarian" of CPAN.


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