What's new in Perl 5.10.1

http://perltraining.com.au/tips/2009-09-07.html

by edw519 • 17 years ago

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draegtun• 17 years ago

A couple of slides showing what was new in 5.10.0:

* http://www.slideshare.net/rjbs/perl-510-for-people-who-arent...

* http://www.slideshare.net/acme/whats-new-in-perl-510

zemote• 17 years ago

I can't believe perl 6 isn't even close to being out. I'm an old perl hacker from way back. It is nice to see new features in perl. Perl isn't as sexy as Python & Ruby these days but it still powers much of the web. The CPAN library is still far above than what any other language offers. If any of you have never hacked up some perl code, i can't recommend it enough.

dragonquest• 17 years ago

Actually, Rakudo, the Perl 6 implementation on the Parrot VM is out and the development team has announced development release #21 for it.

Its probably not the best choice for production work right now, but the development and improvement is going on at a rapid pace. Be sure to check out http://rakudo.org/

jerf2• 17 years ago

Has there been any point in time at which Perl 6 was not developing "at a rapid pace"?

Promises that Perl 6 will be available Real Soon got worn out in about 2006. Wake me when something's production ready. The entire Python 3 process has gone from idea, to preliminary implementation process, to release, and almost certainly a 3.1 release while Perl 6 has been "rapidly developing" and out at "Christmas" (yes, I know the nature of the "joke", except I consider it a joke in the pejorative sense; the funny sense wore out in 2006 too).

And if I had to place money on which will be out first, Python 3.2 or Perl 6, it's Python in a heartbeat.

What's new in Perl 5.10.1

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