Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @01:52AM from the thats-a-lotta-candles dept.

alfcateat writes "Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago yesterday. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! Perl 5.10 isn't just a bug fix version: it's full of new features that I'm eager to use: named captures in regular expressions, state variables for subroutines, the defined-or operator, a switch statement (called given-when, though), a faster regex engine, and more. You can read more about the changes in perldelta."

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Re:Switch statements are syntactic sugar by Instantlemming · 2007-12-19 02:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

100 monkeys will eventually write something that isn't Perl, but will turn out to be the complete works of Shakespeare. It's possible to write obscure code in every language, so Perl's not alone there. Without comments even COBOL-74 source can be a mysterious black box.