Perl 5.004 Most of the ACA is written in Perl. Perl 5.004 or later is required. You can obtain the latest distribution from a CPAN site . The CPAN search engine is usually very handy for finding PERL packages. You must use CPAN perl and perl packages as these are the only software that are guaranteed to work with each other.
All packages are available from the cpan site.
The software uses the LWP package to access information at other sites. LWP is freeware software that can be obtained from the CPAN web site. The CGI package is used to build HTML pages and HTML forms. This package usually comes with the general PERL software. The CGI package is used to build HTML pages from XML elements and visa versa.