in reply to why isn't cpan like npm?
"Why is JSON so popular if Perl already had the same concepts long before JS existed."
I guess: Because Douglas Crockford stopped smoking weed and became reasonable?
P.S.: Stop worrying and use cpanm (and Strawberry if on M$Dog).
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