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Posted by kdawson on from the get-coding dept.

First up, reader martinjlogan sends along a tutorial for setting up a workable Erlang/OTP development environment on a Mac. Next, reader acid06 notes news of Perl 5.12, including what may be the first delivered fix for the Y2K38 bug. (Hit the Read More link below for some details on Perl's new release strategy.) "After two years of development, the new major version of Perl is now available. Notable new features are: better Unicode support, proper support for time after the Y2038 barrier, new APIs to allow developers to extend Perl with 'pluggable' keywords and syntax, warnings for deprecated features and more. From the linked post: You can get it from the CPAN right now or wait for a platform-specific release (such as Strawberry Perl for Windows)." Finally, from reader snydeq: "InfoWorld's Martin Heller provides an in-depth review of Visual Studio 2010 and finds Microsoft taking several large steps away from its legacy IDE code. 'Visual Studio 2010 is a major upgrade in functionality and capability from its predecessor. Developers, architects, and testers will all find areas where the new version makes their jobs easier. Despite the higher pricing for this version, most serious Microsoft-oriented shops will upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 and never look back,' Heller writes. Chief among the improvements are Microsoft's revamping the core editing and designer views to use WPF, its overhaul of IntelliSense and support for test-driven development, and its intelligent support for multiple versions of the .Net Framework."
Re: Perl. This release cycle marks a change to a time-based release process. Beginning with version 5.11.0, we make a new development release of Perl available on the 20th of each month. Each spring, we will release a new stable version of Perl. One month later, we will make a minor update to deal with any issues discovered after the initial ".0" release. Future releases in the stable series will follow quarterly. In contrast to releases of Perl, maintenance releases will contain fixes for issues discovered after the .0 release, but will not include new features or behavior.

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  1. new major version of Perl is now available. by QuietLagoon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh great... has the byzantine syntax finally been rationalized?

    1. Re: new major version of Perl is now available. by QuietLagoon · · Score: -1, Troll
      OK, I guess the truth hurts so much that it needs to be labeled as a troll. Fine with me. But, to be honest here, such censorship only hurts Perl. It would be really, really great if the Perl developers would take a step back, look at what has been created, and develop a Perl that is the result of what has been learnt thus far, and not an accommodation of what has transpired thus far.

      But that's just my opinion, and the mods seem to think it is a troll......

    2. Re: new major version of Perl is now available. by QuietLagoon · · Score: -1, Troll
      -1 troll. I love it. It shows that I have hit a nerve. Can't take an honest opinion from a user of your software? Well, that is truly a shame, and quite indicative of the Perl mentality. "It's not good, let's suppress it". (and please notice that I do know how to spell truly.....)

      I dare you to leave this thread visible for 2+ people. If it is as bad as you think, it will only trash everyone's opinion of me. But if if it is as true as I think, it will expose a weakness in Perl. So the questiojn lingers, what are you really worried about?

    3. Re: new major version of Perl is now available. by QuietLagoon · · Score: -1, Troll

      Another Troll mark. Should I fell honoured?