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44 <p>A Complete History of CPAN.</p>
48 <p>The <a href="http://cpan.org" target="_blank">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)</a> is a very useful
49 collection of Perl code. However, authors of modules can delete older versions of modules to only
50 let CPAN have the latest version of a module and BackPAN is where these deleted modules are backed up.</p>
51 <p>BackPAN.org is a project created by <a href="http://about.me/wallacereis" target="_blank">Wallace Reis</a>
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