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Except that there's over 107,000 Perl modules on CPAN, and fewer than 40,000 Ruby gems.

That's not comparing like with like. Gems are the equivalent of CPAN distributions.

Nice site. Well found.

I find it interesting that PHP doesn't have anything in the same league as Perl/Ruby/Python even after all these years.

Any PHP folk out there?

Composer (with http://packagist.org/) is getting popular in the PHP world.

The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR (http://pear.php.net). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit now that everything is on GitHub (https://github.com/pear/)

They're missing a few languages. For instance, Quicklisp.[1]

[1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/