Craig Sanders wrote:
just about any programming task you can think of is probably already available as a cpan module.
My favourite is Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata. If you're looking that up for the first time, make sure you're sitting down and have a stiff drink handy.
Have a look at ansible if you want to see a fresh and well-balanced approach. http://www.ansibleworks.com/
my initial impressions of ansible weren't great, though. it's yet another web site that doesn't work without javascript [...] they've also done a pretty good job of hiding the license information,
Shrug, one more reason to look at wikipedia's <thing> article before I look at <thing>'s homepage. FYI, apt says you should try https://github.com/ansible/ansible I expect they use their .com as the "business portal" and the github.com as their "community portal", much as some of the more commercial projects did with sourceforge a decade ago.