Category: Best Perl Module

Any perl hacker will tell you that CPAN is where its at. Its like having God's toolbox available to you, with all the hammers and nails you need to practice all the princibles of good perl programming (my favorite is laziness)! This award goes to the perl module that you couldn't live without. Or maybe its just a super sweet hack. Whatever, if its in CPAN, its eligible... its just up to you to nominate it.

DBI.pm

[volsung]

Databases + Perl = Nirvana.

Re:DBI.pm

[zaphod.nu]

I totally agree with that! Even now that we have PHP, perl + DBI.pm does anything! (except walking maybe)

CGI.pm

[kuiken]

It makes CGI scripting easy, but can be darn
powerfull to (isnt that what perl is al about
making normal things easy and hard things possible)

"THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT"-Death

Re:DBI.pm

[emmons]

I'll second that.

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CPAN.pm

[jamiemccarthy]

The CPAN module isn't the most clever or the biggest or most mind-bogglingly complicated you can't believe anyone ever wrote it. (I'd nominate MakeMaker in the latter category :-)

What CPAN.pm [perl.com] does is bridge the gap between your desktop perl code and the rest of the world, with both elegance and great functionality. The CPAN itself, in collaboration with CPAN.pm, has made perl the first popular programming language that lives and breathes on the internet.

Jamie McCarthy

strict.pm

[pne]

How many of us haven't been saved from variable problems by the combined power of "-w" and "use strict"?

Maybe it's not available separately from CPAN, but it must count as one of the most useful modules around.

Net::*

[Kurt Gray]

The Net:: bundle does everything from DNS lookups, sending email (Net::SMTP), FTP, NNTP, etc. etc.

COPE - the perl based ORB

[ahornby]

I nominate COPE, a CORBA ORB written entirely in perl. It is incredibly useful for writing test harnesses and CGIs for CORBA servers.

See http://www.lunatech.com/research/corba/cope/ [lunatech.com]

Re:strict.pm

[ForteBravo]

I second that nomination. That simple phrase "use strict;" is by far one of the most useful all-around tools for getting work done on a daily basis.

I'm sure that if I were never under any time pressure, I wouldn't have to use it, but no other single module comes close.

(Also, I think this award is for best Perl module, not best CPAN perl module, so strict.pm qualifies.)