I believe that the term "Modern Perl" was coined by Michael Saltzman in the title of his book Modern Perl Programming. The book is reviewed here.

Noting when this book was published, 2002, this would suggest that version 5.6.1 would be the baseline version of modern perl. I agree with this, in that I expect modules to be supported in this version and all subsequent. This is also the version I develop on primarily, owing to platform and user base reasons. I've also not had any need to embrace i18n and utf-8 in my applications, which are the main changes in the 5.8.x stream.

This version had "use warnings", "our" and lexical file handles, all of which I tend to make use of in my own modules.

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In reply to Re: What is modern Perl? by rinceWind
in thread What is modern Perl? by kiat

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