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Perl 5.7.3 out!

Posted by krow on from the viva-las-vegas dept.

jeek writes "Perl 5.7.3 is out. This should be the last development version before 5.8.0 comes out in April or May." You can download it from CPAN or get a copy of it from SourceForge.net. If you have some free time try downloading it and testing it. According to the included perldelta.pod file, the highlights are: better Unicode support, new thread implementation, many new modules, better numeric accuracy, safe signals, and a completely overhauled and improved regression test suite.

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  1. Re:Perl 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Perl 6 should be rather more interesting
    If Perl 6 continues trickling out at this incredibly slow pace, Perl 5 will begin to steal its feature set and developers not to mention interest.

    Oh wait. That's already happening!

  2. Re:Perl 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    * waits for someone to compare it to .NET, only with Perl as the base language rather than C#

    Um, do you mean like this?