Thanks. Seems dwim is more for web apps or servers. And its pretty new. I have downloaded Modern Perl recently and do have a lot of books on perl bought (and read) in the early 2000's.

I am wary of generally downloading modules from CPAN since I have already earlier found some to be broken, or have dependencies that are abandoned. Which is why I sort of look for a curated list that is likely to be maintained. I;ve had the same issues with ruby and other languages as well, and am careful of what I depend on. Currently, I've been bitten by ruby's unicode issues (string functions crashing out of the blue in 1.9) and am thus considering going back to perl.