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I started out learning Perl. This was when 5.10 was the newest version which was pretty much forever ago. I just went to look up Perl 5.10 release notes, and t
by rrss1122 11y ago
I started out learning Perl. This was when 5.10 was the newest version which was pretty much forever ago.
I just went to look up Perl 5.10 release notes, and they billed it as "the first major upgrade... in over five years."
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html
I would have loved to keep using Perl in a professional setting but even when I first learned it, it was already forever between two major updates. Perl was fun to use. It's just too bad everyone moved on.
- bwigfield 11y agohttp://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-perl-5-release-history/ http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-p... This have gotten much better and perl 5 has great momentum these days. There was sort of a changing of the guard as a lot of the old guys moved on to perl6 or other things. However nowadays there is lots of fresh blood moving the project alone real nice like.
- greglindahl 11y agoThat was the nadir of perl releases. Starting in 2010, they've released a new major version each year. The first serious perl compiler was just released a week ago: http://rperl.org/ http://rperl.org/ Some people moved on, some people stayed.