A friend of mine is a ClearCase expert. He uses the perl that comes with ClearCase and they upgrade whenever they want. That's one reason. That's a possible kind of a technical constraint, but in a way it's false laziness.
I have an answer to an opposite question: Why don't *i* use perl *earlier* than 5.10? Because it has features that save me so much work, that i prefer to invest some time in upgrading and not to keep dabbling with the older style. It's enough to mention named capture and smart match. I don't know why some people think differently. > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 16:21, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'd like to understand the reasons why companies do NOT upgrade perl versions >> but I don't know what could be the possible answers. I have a few but >> I'd like to have a >> few more if you have. >> >> 1) Something might break in our Perl code >> 2) We use the same Operating system we used 10 years ago and the perl >> that came with it >> 3) We have XS code that we could not compile with the newer versions of perl >> 4) We actually tried but it breaks some of our Perl code >> 5) It does not give us any advantage >> >> What are the reasons at your company or what other reasons have you >> heard from others? -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
