Having never used 5.6, I have not paid much attention to the differences between it and 5.005. However, we've had some problems at work where our IS director is using 5.6 and others are not. He'll hack out a script, ask me to test it, and things go downhill from there. I've chatted with him about this and agreed to look into the differences between the two and make a recommendation. I'm going to read up on 5.6, but I'd like to get the impressions from fellow Monks as to whether or not switching to 5.6 is worthwhile. I've heard that it's buggy, but perl.com always has that "Perl Versions: Stable is 5.6.0." notice at the top of their main page.

We are using this primarily for CGI scripts, using MS SQL Server 7.0 on an NT network with IIS. (And ActiveState Perl, of course).

Cheers,
Ovid

In reply to 5.6 versus 5.005 by Ovid

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