No. I came to Perl when Perl 4 was the latest. I was using it as a frame work for distributed computing, moving data between machines. I was on the point of

No. I came to Perl when Perl 4 was the latest. I was using it as a frame work for distributed computing, moving data between machines. I was on the point of throwing it all away for C++ when Perl5 came out. I forget the details, but it made everything possible, and did not get in my way like Perl 4 did.