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Perl 5.14.0 releasedPerl 5.14.0 releasedPosted May 15, 2011 5:54 UTC (Sun) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: Perl 5.14.0 released by mrons Parent article: Perl 5.14.0 released
Yes, I saw that, and I quite welcome the change!
Unfortunately, most of the perl I write is at work, where they stubbornly stick to perl 5.8 in too many places, which means I best not get in the habit of using it for a few years.
*grumble* *grumble*
Why yes, that IS a RHEL WS 4 machine under my desk. How did you know?
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Perl 5.14.0 released Posted May 15, 2011 18:51 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Yes, RHEL 4 is basically the cross-vendor standard for the EDA (electronic design automation) industry, so a lot of us are stuck with it.
Perl 5.14.0 released Posted May 15, 2011 20:47 UTC (Sun) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]
And a good number of parallel clusters outside EDA. ugh.
Perl 5.14.0 released Posted May 15, 2011 21:06 UTC (Sun) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
Yeah, that's the environment I'm in at work.
Fortunately, for the vast majority of scripting I have to do, I've been able to get away with having a "local" 5.12.1 build for our team and load up all the CPAN modules I want or need. Unfortunately, I can only use that environment within our site, so if I have to do something that runs cross-site, I likely have to fall back to the corporate standard 5.8 and the set of modules they've chosen to install.
Perl 5.14.0 released Posted May 26, 2011 8:36 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
I just got a feeling that in 2036, I'll find a VM deep inside a system in a corner of a massive data center still running Perl 5.8 and people running around in circle trying to migrate from 32bit time_t. Woohooo
Perl 5.14.0 released Posted May 26, 2011 13:44 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
Are you suggesting Perl 5.8 is the COBOL of our era? ;-)
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