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Re: Which perl do you use?by Aristotle (Chancellor) |
on Jan 27, 2005 at 06:18 UTC ( [id://425475]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I make sure never to be working with anything less than 5.8 because good Unicode support is so crucial. On my own box, I track the latest stable release closely; currently I have 5.8.6. On machines I deploy to, I don't care a whole lot about the number behind the second dot. Any version of 5.8 means all the utility modules I rely on heavily are available in core and all the language features I require are around (even 5.6 would be sufficient in that regard). But I'm a Perl developer, so the Perl interpreter is my core competence and tool of trade. It should be expected that I'd track versions closely. If I were a sysadmin responsible for keeping 50 variously sized applications available without interruptions on 30 servers, I'd obviously be taking a different view. Makeshifts last the longest.
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