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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Don't use any modules by Marc Lehmann, you will almost certainly regret it later. This author has a history of extreme hostility towards the Perl community and will actively prevent you from using his software if he doesn't like you, or what you do with it.
To give you an example, in the 6.1 release of AnyEvent he made AnyEvent.pm die if you use it together with IO::Async::Loop::AnyEvent. metacpan.org/source/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent...
See also this P5P thread for a little more context. www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.po...
PSA Perl - 2012-04-24T07:28:55
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I'm using this module to compare different influenza strain names and determine when two names are really the same - e.g. A/CK/HK/Y41/04 is the same as A/Chicken/Hong Kong/Y41/04. Its been working great so far, and I'm happy not to have to reinvent the wheel for this problem.
rachel - 2004-02-26T10:22:28
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