Perl 5.11.0 Released

jamie points out that Perl 5.11.0 was released yesterday, as well as a schedule for future 5.11.x releases, planned for the 20th of every month. Jesse Vincent encouraged testing of the new (development) version, saying, "If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test your software against development releases. While we strive to maintain source compatibility with prior releases wherever possible, it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpected consequences. If you spot a change in a development release which breaks your code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before the next stable release. If you only test your code against stable releases of Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible change which breaks your code."

Comments

Also try Perl 6

[Norsefire]

While you're being adventurous and testing Perl 5.11.0 I also suggest trying a Perl 6 implementation. Rakudo Perl (running on the Parrot VM) is one of the most actively developed right now. Not as solid as Perl 5.X yet, but certainly getting there.

Re:Perl has died in industry.

[harmonise]

Perl 6 != Perl 5. They are two VERY different languages.

Then maybe they need to have two VERY different names. Have we learned nothing from the problems caused by Java and JavaScript? It's nearly 2010 and people still think those two languages have something in common with one another. Now we have two different languages with the same name. Did anyone think that that would not cause confusion?