CPAN

Module List Categories

Perl Core Modules, Perl Language Extensions, and Documentation Tools

Development Support

Operating System Interfaces, Hardware Drivers

Networking, Device Control, and Interprocess Communication

Data Types and Data Type Utilities

Database Interfaces

User Interfaces

Interfaces to or Emulations of Other Programming Languages

File Names, File Systems, and File Locking

String Processing, Language Text Processing, Parsing, and Searching

Option, Argument, Parameter, and Configuration File Processing

Internationalization and Locale

Authentication, Security, and Encryption

World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME, and so on

Server and Daemon Utilities

Archiving, Compression, and Conversion

Images, Pixmap, and Bitmap Manipulation

Mail and Usenet News

Control Flow Utilities

File Handle, Directory Handle, and Input/Output Stream Utilities

Microsoft Windows Modules

Miscellaneous Modules

Interface Modules to Commercial Software

Bundles

Secondly, each listing contains a DSLIP code that can give you some infor 

mation about the status of the module. DSLIP stands for Development Stage, 

Support Level, Language Used, Interface Style, and Public License. For example, a 

DSLIP code of bmpOp specifies that the module is in beta testing (b), is supported 

by a mailing list (m), is written in pure Perl (p), has an object oriented interface 

(O) and is licensed under the same license as Perl (p). Table 1 1 lists the various 

DSLIP codes.

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