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Please consider...

Some of us are cursed with companies that have only recently discovered the wheel. hahaha Keeping the old but adding the new would be, by far, the best alternative.

1). We need the old documentation. Getting up to Perl 6 is several years away from common acceptance, for the multi-national that I work for. I'm sure that many others are in the same circumstance.

2.) If the old documentation were to go away then reverse engineering the scripting that previous, and inferior, hackers have... hacked together will become more difficult.

3.) Transitioning scripting from Perl 5 to Perl 6 will require access to Perl 5 documentation.

4.) How can you appreciate the niffty new keen cool updates in Perl 6 without an appreciation for Perl 5?

5.) etc, etc, etc.

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Re: Re: I want site documentation updates and I want them now.
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jun 03, 2002 at 11:53 UTC

    Keeping the old but adding the new would be, by far, the best alternative.

    You did not read my post. I suggested adding links for all releases that have documentation on perldoc. The oldest is 5.004, the newest is currently 5.7.3, but I expect it to be 5.8.0 soon.

    Getting up to Perl 6 is several years away from common acceptance, for the multi-national that I work for.

    That is great! Maybe it will be accepted as soon as it's released, which would be wonderful! For your information: Perl 6 hasn't even been designed completely yet.

    Transitioning scripting from Perl 5 to Perl 6 will require access to Perl 5 documentation.

    Just as a side note: all documentation is distributed with perl itself, so you probably have the documentation right there on your hard drive. Besides, perldoc.com will hold old releases for a long time.

    5.) etc, etc, etc.

    Please do tell, as your 4 other points weren't too useful. 

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      Actually 5.7.3 is dead. Its 5.8 now (rc1). The change happened on the 29th.

      Just being pedantic. But I completely agree with you the documentation should either be upgraded or it should go completely, to be replaced by perldoc.com

      Thanks for writing this. ++

      Yves / DeMerphq
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      Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

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        Actually 5.7.3 is dead. Its 5.8 now (rc1). The change happened on the 29th.

        Tell perldoc.com :) 

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