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Post #2554198

2025-06-04 01:05 UTC

@bartreardon@aus.social Today’s Perl 5.40.2 is not the same as 1994’s Perl 5.0.0

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  • @siracusa@mastodon.social @bartreardon@aus.social As someone who years ago had to periodically compile newer Perl and Perl modules on HP-UX (Itanium) for $WORK, can confirm… significant differences in performance, features, platform support, etc. over time encompassed in that one major version 5.

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  • @bartreardon@aus.social 2025-06-04 05:07

    @siracusa@mastodon.social Mr Incredible Meme: "5 is 5" But yes, it's quite different 🙂 Also Perl 6 aka Raku aka wtf is raku?

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  • @siracusa@mastodon.social @bartreardon@aus.social and today's Python 3.12.8 is not the same as 2008's Python 3.0.0; for a start we've gotten async/await support and a way to sidestep the GIL since then. what's your point?

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  • @whophd@ioc.exchange 2025-06-05 05:49

    @siracusa@mastodon.social @bartreardon@aus.social *applause*

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