Fantastic "hey, perl is not dead" article, and read it just as I was hunkering down to do some AWS automation with perl.

What has always impressed me is the consistency and quality of the documentation of most CPAN modules. There's a huge group of people working at improving perl infrastructure and they don't get half the credit that they deserve!

Some examples:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~melo/Redis/lib/Redis.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit/

http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose/

It is just ridiculous. Searching around CPAN can become an odyssey.