I seriously doubt there are more people maintaining code in Perl 4 than there are starting new projects in Perl 5 or Perl 6. Perl 5 replaced Perl 4 in 1993. I p

I seriously doubt there are more people maintaining code in Perl 4 than there are starting new projects in Perl 5 or Perl 6. Perl 5 replaced Perl 4 in 1993. I personally know of several companies using Perl 5 when they start new projects; I think my last exposure to Perl 4 in production was around 1995. On the larger subject, I agree, old documentation shouldn't be discarded, but should be clearly marked as referring to an older version. Of course, the horrible outdated examples the original article mentions have such disclaimers, but people still see their code as representative Perl code.