From the department of vaguely useful statistics, a histogram showing
how many authors have published how many modules.
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/tmp/mod_per_author.txt

and the sloppy program to generate it
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/tmp/mods_per_author.plx

Where "module" == the latest version of the distribution (ie. tarball).
And "author" == CPANID.  Information was gotten from 02packages.index and
01mailto.

What does this tell us?

*) Number of modules published vs number of authors is logarithmic.
*) A large minority of CPAN ids go unused.
*) Of those that publish, a majority of CPAN authors publish only one module.
*) Very few people publish more than 10 modules.
*) Somebody needs to stop Miyagawa before he kills again.


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Michael G Schwern        schwern@pobox.com  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Sometimes you eat the path, sometimes the path eats you.