BeigeJournal

I don’t use it that often, which means I have to spend a few minutes fumbling with different commands and eventually looking for documentation at cpan.org, but Perl’s CPAN script is the coolest, most amazing thing. It is just a joy to behold. Find, download, unpack, configure, compile, test, and install a Perl package, cleanup after itself, and by the way, we can update the CPAN package itself while we’re at it if you like. What cpan.org needs is a link right on the front page that says something like, “CPAN module quickstart: install modules automagically with the two or three commands documented here that are really easy to use but which you can never remember when you need them.”