The T-Files


Fri, 22 Jul 2005

"CPAN".replace(/CP/, "JS")

JSAN powered

One of the many (1001?) reasons to love Perl is CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. When Perl people have to work in other programming languages, they will immediately miss it. This is where the recently launched JavaScript Archive Network (JSAN) comes in: It attempts to be a CPAN for JavaScript. The whole approach (including the programming style that they propagate) may be a little too Perlish for other communities to really embrace it, and of course, the project is young and the modules still few, but I for one like the idea, switched out the JavaScript on the T-Files in favour of JSAN modules (let me know if you have any problems with the new style-switching code), and happily add a new button to the collection: