CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of software written in Perl containing over 134,000 modules in over 29,700 distributions, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at www.cpan.org and is mirrored world The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 193,834 Perl modules in 35,833 distributions, written by 13,292 authors, mirrored on 253 servers.