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The Perl 5 module BackPAN::Index provides an index of BackPAN and
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some handy methods. The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
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is a very useful collection of Perl code. However, in order to keep
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CPAN relatively small, authors of modules can delete older versions
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of modules to only let CPAN have the latest version of a module.
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BackPAN is where these deleted modules are backed up. It's more
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like a full CPAN mirror, only without the deletions.
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