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Perl 5.11.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-so-soon dept.

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."

6 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Perl has died in industry (mod away, kids) by uassholes · · Score: 0, Troll

    I constantly struggle to make various Python programs work.

    Why can't people just write real programs in real languages?

    Remember C and Java?

  2. Re:Also try Perl 6 by outZider · · Score: 0, Troll

    I take it you're a COBOL programmer?

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    - oZ
    // i am here.
  3. Re:who uses PERL by uassholes · · Score: 0, Troll
    Is that why the interface is such fucking shit?

    include: Slashdot

  4. Re:Seriously? by shmlco · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perl dominated the web back in the early days not so much because of its power or ability to do "heavy lifting", but because it was darn near your only choice for server-side development and scripting. This was pre-ASP, pre-CF, pre-PHP, and Ruby wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye.

    Perl is powerful, yes, but it's also complex, obtuse, and far surpases C in the obfusication department. The "smart and experienced people" abandoned it in droves the second easier to use and more productive tools became available.

    I personally know of exactly one company that uses Perl at the moment, and that's only for text cleanup.

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    Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
  5. What about 3rd party modules? by krypticmind · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ladies, ladies, before you start talking about things you obviously lack the brains to comprehend, lets just remind everyone how one should measure an active development community. Lets examine the amount of modules in the default distribution for each of the top interpreted languages today: CPAN: 73018, PyPI: 7740, Pear: 132. A year ago, there were 58878 modules on CPAN (http://web.archive.org/web/20080730121430/http://search.cpan.org/). Draw your own conclusions whether the language is dead. Meanwhile, the Python (ex PHP retards) core team is still trying to figure out, 20 years deep in the development of the project, how to support UNICODE correctly. Good times!

  6. Fool by omb · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you know as much, and can do as much as Larry Wall, talk, meanwhile STFU.