CPAN, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network has over 25,000 open source modules available for download. Comprehensive Perl Archive Network The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is an archive of over 25,000 distributions of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It is searchable http://metacpan.org/ and mirrored in over 270 locations around the world. CPAN can denote either