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by Eric Wilhelm (6389)

Insisting on staying compatible with technology which is simply too old? Maybe the 5.5 compatibility habit was developed when 5.6 came out. Perhaps we should drop 5.5 (and even start sharpening the axe for 5.6) once 5.10 arrives.

Perl has *actually* changed in that time. Being compatible means programming with your hands tied behind your back.

And then there's ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which apparently is the favored installer of 99.9% of CPAN users (at least, if you take the default options of CPAN or CPANPLUS
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  by schwern (1528) on 2007.09.08 19:18 (#57640) Homepage Journal
  
  WRT compatibility, it will be interesting to see from the results of the Perl Survey [perlsurvey.org] how many people still use the older versions we're so slavishly adhering to.
  
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