One of the best thing is CPAN. One central repository with a lot of
Perl modules. Only searching in CPAN is not very easy, there are a lot
of modules and most are too specific, to buggy, do something useless,
or are for some other reason useless.
Therefore an overview of modules that we use or tried but did not live
up to our expectations.
Class-DBI
Make using SQL tables a lot easier, lot less long SQL
statements, just to get a single field
Primary keys must consist of single fields
Gives incomprehensible error messages
Getargs-Long
Does what it is supposed to do, catch typos (or naming
conventions)
Too complex (and too slow) for such a simple task
Does not give the correct location (and usefull message) of an error
