Crypt::RSA without Pari
Crypt::RSA is a module that's been around since 2001, when Vipul Ved Prakash put it on CPAN. It's had only very minor updates since then, and gets used by a few other modules. However, it's had one big problem: it uses Math::Pari for all its calculations, and two of its dependencies (Crypt::Primes and Crypt::Random) also use Pari. Debian in particular has been pining for a…
I've been using Perl since 1991 (4.010 or so). At some point I realized that while I have used many languages, I enjoy using Perl more than any others.