in reply to Oldbie reborned in to a Newbie

2004, that was the Perl 5.6.x days, no?

Well, the greatest changes in Perl 5.8.x were, in my humble opinion, just the way Unicode is handled (see Encode).

The fairly recent changes in Perl 5.10 are much farther reaching. You can find nice short introductions to those new features in the Perl Tips articles by pjf.

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Re^2: Oldbie reborned in to a Newbie
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2008 at 22:21 UTC
    2004? 5.6 days? 5.8.0 was released the summer of 2002.