Gabor Szabo wrote:

> Wow, no one has anything to say?
>
>   
In a way, a no-answer is an answer.

What I find interesting, is that on one hand, everyone seems to agree 
that upgrading should be done constantly and continuously and that 
running end-of-life software is like making love with a corpse or 
something. On the other hand, somehow, when I talk with people who 
actually maintain a computer which does something useful and/or 
critical, I get something like: "Well, because of a special situation we 
have, we're still with the version released ten years ago". The amusing 
thing is that so many are in that "special" situation.

When your computer does something important, the number one priority is 
that it behaves like it did yesterday.

To me, the last important release of perl was 5.8 because it handles 
Unicode natively. The best feature of versions that came afterwards is 
the fact that nothing I use broke.

   Eli

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