Post #2554198
2025-06-04 01:05 UTC
Replies (4)
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@matt_garber@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-06-04 02:21
@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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@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer 2025-06-04 06:58
@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*