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Wednesday February 25, 2004

09:24 AM

[ #17617 ]

'cause I unwisely and officially got a pumpkin. At least, until we manage to bring Hugo back from the so-called "real" world.

Perl 5.9.1 is forthcoming...

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When does it stop? (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603)

With the development of Perl 6 underway, at what point does development on Perl 5.x stop? Just curious.
- When it stops scratching someone's itch. (Score:2)
  
  by jmm (276)
  
  The Nordic Perl Workshop announcement notes that there will be 4 pumpkings in attendance. There are pumpkings for multiple versions of Perl 5 - often people want to upgrade with bug fixes but avoid any significant changes, so there is ongoing support for many older versions at once.
  When Perl 6 comes out, it will attract an audience very quickly, but established applications will continue to run on their current platforms for a long time.
  While it's easy to write new code in the latest version of the langu
  - Re:When it stops scratching someone's itch. (Score:2)
    
    by rafael (2125)
    
    'xactly. Perl 5 is not quite dead yet. And that's largely due to the fact that Perl 6 is not Perl 5-compatible: contrary to what happened with the upgrade Perl 4 to Perl 5 (mostly).
Congrats! (Score:2)

by Ovid (2709)

Congratulations. (This doesn't mean I have to bow and scrape, does it?)