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would the Founder of PERL, Mr. Larry Wall be sometimes seen wandering around the premises here?

The best way to find out is to keep reading!

Also, do you have a designated person to welcome newcomers?

Many newcomers have received a welcome, but not necessarily by a designated person. PerlMonks isn't an organisation with defined roles.

...we could try to highlight its benefits that many people wouldn't know.

Yeah, feel free to do so! Different users see different benefits, and amongst the PerlMonks the language is being used for vastly different things. As for the new future, Perl 5.38 is around the corner, bringing (among other things) a new keyword class. I would expect its benefits to be discussed among PerlMonks in the near future.

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Re^2: PERL in the near future
by Nayeem-monk (Novice) on Mar 03, 2023 at 18:00 UTC
    Hi Haj, hmm I'm guessing ultimately Perl 5.38 and 5.0 both would exist for different purposes.
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      G'day Nayeem-monk,

      "hmm I'm guessing ultimately Perl 5.38 and 5.0 both would exist for different purposes."

      I think you may have misunderstood something here; or perhaps just made a false assumption. Perl version numbers have increased as new updates have been released: they're all versions of Perl; they do not have "different purposes".

      Note the chronological progression of version numbers in perlhist.

      The URL "https://metacpan.org/pod/perl" will show you the current stable version (5.36.0 at the time of writing). In the lefthand panel, the "Jump to version" dropdown list has links for versions going back to very early Perl5 versions.

      Given a version like 5.x.y, development releases have an odd "x" number and stable releases have an even "x" number. This convention started around 5.6.0.

      See also: "use VERSION"; "perldata: Version Strings"; "version (pragma)".

      — Ken

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