On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, David Grove wrote:
> The Perl 5 path is almost dead: adventurers and Win32 users are the
> vast majority using it at all.
Since when?
> Add Solaris 8 1/01 to the list of OS's that have completely rejected
> 5.6, as I discovered last night, and I'd imagine that there are more.
Not true; Sun is just being their paranoid selves and put on 5.005
instead. I'm sure they will go to 5.6 when 5.8 is out; that's their
style.
>From 'www.perl.com':
"For the faint of heart, the previous version of Perl is the 5.005_03
release. Timid souls who are afraid to upgrade to the current release
might want this."
Sun probably decided that they are faint of heart.
> Let Perl 5 die with the corporate interests.
Corporate interests? That's news to me. I always thought that the people
who worked on Perl 5 were the hard-working folks on p5p.
- D
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