The most important thing is to keep those systems running....

I can assure you that Ovid hastily rejected my patch to the Cor design to raise funds to build a space laser to destroy all extant versions of Perl pre-Corinna from every hard drive, tape drive, optical disk, external drive, and paper printout in existence.

So good news; every public release of every version of Perl already released will still be available and that code will stay running!

gratuitous

I don't think this word means the same thing to both of us.

briefly

I don't think this word means the same thing to both of us.