CPXXXAN is SexPAN

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At the Perl QA Hackathon, I and others were constantly tripping over how to pronounce CPXXXAN — David Cantrell’s family of platform-specific or Perl version-specific subsets of CPAN.

Some people suggested we pronounce it “spandex” for some reason, but that’s already a better fit for Chris Williams' CPANIDX modules.

Only on the final night did I realize the right thing to do is to play off the “XXX” in the name and just pronounce it “SexPAN”.

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