1) I am using Perl 5.005_03 because,
2) It came with Red Hat 6.1.
in answer to number 3, the only reason I would develop with a very new version of Perl would be it's user base. I would'nt want to write a script that might be useful to others only to have them be restricted by their version of Perl.

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