It's sad you're being downvoted. I've found similar sentiment elsewhere, and I'm interested to learn more. stableperl (http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stab

It's sad you're being downvoted. I've found similar sentiment elsewhere, and I'm interested to learn more. stableperl (http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html) is a fork of perl 5.22 with a couple of tiny reversions that re-enable access to some internal state required by certain CPAN modules. The author talks in other blog posts (http://blog.schmorp.de/2016-12-29-griefing-the-perl-api.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2016-12-29-griefing-the-perl-api.html, http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-11-12-tidbits-why-coro-crashes-or-how-perl-6-deals-with-bugs.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-11-12-tidbits-why-coro-crashes-o..., http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-12-15-tidbits-cgipm-a-data-point.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-12-15-tidbits-cgipm-a-data-point...) about the decline of Perl's cohesion. It's sad to see. -- EDIT: And now I'm being downvoted. I have no problem with Perl, I watched the Perl 6 presentation when it was released with great interest. Perl remains on my list of languages to learn (I know, I know...). It's up there. And that's why I said I was sad to see datapoints like the one I linked. I want Perl to keep going strong, and I hope it lasts another 20 years. I guess I added this comment because I wanted to find out if there was anything I could do.