When people like Tim Bunce accept patches to make their code work on 5.6.2, that is the difference, in some companies...

5.6.2 I can almost accept. It's nearly four years old, but I can almost accept this, because it shows that at least they upgraded to something somewhat modern.

I'm sure there are companies using Perl 4.x, which is fourteen and a half years old. I don't see why anyone should care about them.

And as for how old perl 5.6 is - hands up who's using the even more ancient C and SQL standards....

Hands up everyone who's using gcc 2.x, Visual Studio 1.x, and msql.

Mature languages don't normally go adding new and pointless features - like 'our' and three-arg open - willy-nilly, and in my opinion mature programmers won't go using them without giving serious thought to the ramifications.

Objection: strawman. I didn't mention any features in specific, and I did mention bugfixes. I'm sort of a fan of being able to use Unicode properly, and I'm definitely glad for performance improvements in regular expressions and all of the memory leaks fixed in closures and CVs coming in 5.10. It's a bit silly to call those pointless features added willy-nilly.

In reply to Re^3: The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl by chromatic
in thread The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl by szabgab

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