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by mhd 781 days ago
For Perl4? Not that likely, IIRC CPAN was started in '95, after Perl 5 came out which introduced most of the packaging semantics. I think Perl 4 basically had an "include" equivalent.

Don't remember anyone doing OO back then with it, either. Would be interested to know how that worked...