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Perl 5.8.1 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-shiny-camels dept.

langles writes "Perl 5.8.1 has been released. Read the official announcement, then download it from a CPAN mirror near you. If you've been following the Perl5 Porters List, you'll know this version was very well tested before they released it. However, there may be some modules that will need to be fixed before they will work with this release." The announcement also contains full details on incompatibilities and known issues, so give it a once over before upgrading, especially if from a pre-5.8 version.

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  1. Pythoneers congratulates Perl geeks! by bolideflyer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What different between Larry Wall wrote program in Python, and the same one Guido Van Rossum wrote in Perl? Just Python code few lines longer. The real difference is that Larry's code works from the first run time, but Guido's still not and he is still figuring out why... ;-)

    I would like to celebrate this good news with Perl geeks just because Perl is not VisualBasic or VBScript or other M$ product. ;-). But I would like wish to all Perl hackers to have the same productivity, fast and hight fun during developing as we, Pythoneers have!

    Hope, with Perl 6 you will... And all Slashdot members even will enjoy Structured Text as we can, instead to write HTML tags... ;-)

  2. Re:This is good news by binary+paladin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Speak no more of such blasphemy you infidels! Only unbelievers would make such a ridiculous statement.