Perl 5.8.0 Released

twoshortplanks writes "The latest version of Perl has been released, with new features such as better Unicode support, a new threads implementation, new IO layer support, and a whole plethora of bundled modules - plus a wonderful collection of regression tests and new documentation. The release notes and links to mirrors for download are on dev.perl.org." This is not a release candidate, it's the real thing, representing over two years of work by patch pumpkin holder Jarkko Hietaniemi and his merry band. Hugo van der Sanden is the new pumpking for perl 5.10.

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[Anonymous Coward]

FYI: The parent post is a direct reposting of this comment from an earlier thread.

Anyone notice that these days, there seems to be some people who have written some legitimate but borderline-flamebait documents about various programming languages, and they repost them every time a programming story comes up? For example, i'm almost certain i've seen that silly "Perl's day is over, it's become like COBOL" or whatever post at least twice. (You know what i mean?)

Explanation of a pumpkin

[roadkill999]

patch pumpkin n. [Perl hackers] A notional token passed around among the members of a project. Possession of the patch pumpkin means one has the exclusive authority to make changes on the project's master source tree. The implicit assumption is that `pumpkin holder' status is temporary and rotates periodically among senior project members. This term comes from the Perl development community, but has been sighted elsewhere. It derives from a stuffed-toy pumpkin that was passed around at a development shop years ago as the access control for a shared backup-tape drive.