Re^3: The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl

To many of its users, Perl is not a product, it's a tool. You use whatever version of Perl is available at the moment. Needing to upgrade the version of Perl means that you could likely easier accomplish the task at hand using a pipe system made out of sed, awk and ksh. This is why it's important to me not to place unnecessary restrictions on modules.

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Re^4: The need and the price of running on old versions of Perl by szabgab (Priest) on Sep 18, 2007 at 11:49 UTC
Sure, there are things that are easier with sed, awk and ksh. So use them. Besides, most of the tasks done easily with those tools can be done as easily with any version of Perl without the need of a module. When you really need a module you will probably find one that works on your version of Perl. It might not be the latest version of that module but do you really need the latest version?	[reply]