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From:
Daniel Carrera
Date:
January 2, 2011 12:16
Subject:
Re: Questions for Survey about Perl
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud@pobox.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty
> Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a "production release"):
>
>  - What constitues a "production release"?

The developers judge that the software is reasonably feature complete,
and more importantly, it is robust enough to use in a "production"
environment such as a school or company website, where customers will
experience it. It does not mean that it is perfect, or fast. But the
programmer should have a reasonable expectation that it will work
correctly (aka as documented).

>  - What was the first production release of Perl 4?

I never saw Perl 4, but I suspect 4.0.

>  - What was the first production release of Perl 5?

I suspect 5.0.

>  - What was the first production release of Linux?

I suspect 1.0

>  - At what point was each of the above declared a "production release";
>    was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards?

IMO, concurrent.

Daniel.
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