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Interesting that 8 points was enough. Well, it's off to the races. People should remember Perl programmers sleep late and live on the West Coast. Nothing before 1pm EST.

Let the Perl reminiscing commence.

Also, the warning as to why you should never start over.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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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 they billed it as "the first major upgrade... in over five years."

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.

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.

That 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/

Some people moved on, some people stayed.

I hope with Perl 6, some people will also come back.

How do come to the opinion that rperl is the first "serious perl compiler"? It certainly is not.

There's a reasonable contingent in Japan.

But they are switching to ruby, go and Java in an alarming rate.

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