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Perl 5.14 Released

Posted by timothy on from the before-swine-and-with-the-rest dept.

chromatic writes "Pumpking Jesse Vincent has just released Perl 5.14, the latest stable version of the venerable Perl 5 programming language. The list of changes in Perl 5.14 includes several enhancements, including performance tuning, Unicode improvements, and updates to the core libraries and documentation. Perl 5.16 is on track for a release next April."

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  1. Perl - the COBOL of scripting languages by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Troll

    Back in its day, Perl was vastly superior to its alternatives for web server language or large/large shell script jobs. So many superior (e.g. python) or just simpler (e.g. php5) alternatives have arisen while Larry vainly struggles on trying to turn Perl 6 into a swiss army knife complete with toilet, bowling ball and strap-less bra. Thus is the language is dying off, I see few projects done in Perl at my clients (which have tens of millions to billion+ dollar IT budgets). Sure, it's part of the important legacy code in various configuration and building tools for various OS that I use, but I could say the same for the remaining COBOL that lingers at my clients. It's undead but hardly living.