What interview, and with who? I'm pretty sure that no real Perl developer would really say that.

Perl is, I guess you could say, an "ancient language" -- it is from 1987. It has been redone several times, with the transition of Perl 4 to Perl 5 probably being the most important so far. As you may have noticed, Perl has a much longer release cycle than, say, PHP, which is already on version 6 and has been around for much shorter of a time period. IIRC, PHP4 was the standard in 2009, PHP5 in 2010, and PHP6 now. Perl is still onversion 5, and has been since the late 90s(not including subversions, which are released more often, the most recent being 5.16.0).

~Thomas~
confess( "I offer no guarantees on my code." );

In reply to Re^3: Future Of Perl by thomas895
in thread Future Of Perl by bedohave9

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