Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

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:Hmmmmmm

[SolitaryMan]

and don't go on about Parrot

I always though of Parrot as of a project that was born dead. What niche is it going to fit in, anyway? The same javish "write-once-support-anywhere" thing? Well, Java is doing pretty OK there: it has a pretty good market in small apps and games for cellphones, but I really doubt, that Parrot can make any difference there.

Large projects are usually targeted at some specific environment and nobody cares about OS independence, since OS is cheaper anyway.

I understand, that writing a VM can be fun, but I'm just wondering, are there any other reasons for working on this project? What merits it has?