sort -V works the same way (1.10 > 1.9 > 1.1), as does every package manager I've ever used. Using floats for version numbers is just as insane as using them fo

sort -V works the same way (1.10 > 1.9 > 1.1), as does every package manager I've ever used. Using floats for version numbers is just as insane as using them for financial transactions, but that's classic Perl for you (bonkers in their own unique way, with an optional sane system that exists in parallel which then lets you create even more bugs by confusing them).