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.
Posted May 26, 2011 8:36 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606)
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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)
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Are you suggesting Perl 5.8 is the COBOL of our era? ;-)