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Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

CPAN is an acronym standing for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. It is a large archive of software written in perl and documentation for it. It has a presence of the internet at http://www.cpan.org/ and is mirrored? worldwide. The name is styled after CTAN?, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.