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Jun 27, 2025 · Backend Development
How CPAN Shaped Modern Package Management and Sparked the npm Era
This article traces the history of Perl's CPAN from its 1995 origins, explains how its centralized module repository and automated testing infrastructure pioneered package management, and shows how CPAN's concepts spread to Python, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript, ultimately influencing the massive npm ecosystem.
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