As a counter example, Perl is well-known for having a huge base of libraries via CPAN, but the signal to noise ratio is very low.
Sturgeon's Law applies so its no good picking on just Perl libraries here!
There are few libraries that have any quality and a general lack of consistency and interoperability between them with the notable exception of packages like Moose.
Sturgeon's Law applies so its no good picking on just Perl libraries here!
There are few libraries that have any quality and a general lack of consistency and interoperability between them with the notable exception of packages like Moose.
Please see Task::Kensho which is a list of recommended CPAN modules: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/lib/Task/Kensho.pm