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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:19:08AM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > There is something to be said for that idea. But beware, you may be falling > victim to self-selection bias yourself. "Commonly used modules" are the > modules that the *current* users of Perl are *already* comfortable fetching > from CPAN. Moving those into the Perl core is (from an advocacy perspective) > bringing coals to Newcastle. What's "commonly used" anyway? With the possible exception of 'strict.pm' (I hope), I'd bet that any Perl module, whether in the core or on CPAN, has never been used by 80% of the users. But we'll never know because we don't know the average Perl programmer. Abigail