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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. Re:Sorry, but I cannot recommend Perl. by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    trying to get the meaning of some Perl gibberish

    This confirms my solid belief that those who complain about Perl are the ones who do not know Perl.

    Those folks who bothered to learn Perl, usually find it readable, easy to maintain, quite robust, and easy to work with.

    The fact that it takes a "wild mix" (your words) of other languages to simulate similar behavior should say something about the expressive power of Perl, and the limitations of said in other languages.

    --

    "If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy

  2. I've already got Perl 6... by CatGrep · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's called Ruby ;-)