in reply to Coping with changes

No more than the usual 'I better check out this new stuff' while you continue to do Perl 5.

IPv6 is at a level that 99% of us won't ever need to worry about.

So you expand your knowledge about how the new tags work. That doesn't sound like a bad thing.

Go ahead and use the new tool if you like; I'm perfectly happy with gvim and a pile of xterm windows.

Pffffft. Buddy, I finished high school in 1975. I grew up with teletypes, 110 baud modem, paper tape and punch cards. In this business you learn and grow, or you get into some other business. :)

I believe a lot of the stuff you're concerned about is new features on an old platform. The old stuff isn't (much) going to disappear.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds