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in thread Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows

There are *plenty* of people still using 5.8.8, because 5.8.8 was, for a very long time, the most recent version of perl.

You're right; I had forgotten about Mac OS X.

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Re^9: Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows
by DrHyde (Prior) on May 05, 2009 at 10:01 UTC

    Huh? 

    $ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux

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    What does the operating system have to do with anything?

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      It's the only widely used modern operating system I know of which includes Perl as part of the default installation but hasn't upgraded to a recent release.

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        What, so now as well as tracking the bleeding edge of perl you think that people will (maybe even "should"?) also track the bleeding edge of their *operating system*?
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