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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:Note: by ajmarks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This fat web coder prefers PHP as it streamlines developement incredibly by allowing me to continue using my Dreamweaver templates for site-wide layout changes.

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