You're right Perl 5.18 is no longer being maintained. But Perl 5.30 is still maintained, and almost all Perl 5.18 code should run on it unaltered. --- As far

You're right Perl 5.18 is no longer being maintained. But Perl 5.30 is still maintained, and almost all Perl 5.18 code should run on it unaltered. --- As far as I know, there is no-one who is involved with maintaining both Perl5 and Perl6. There are separate groups for both. In fact I think there are more people being paid to work on Perl5 than there are being paid to work on Perl6.