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Postings from April 2000
Tom Christiansen (lists.p5p): >We don't *need* those features for there to be a new release. Plenty >got done. I challenge you to do back and look at what really >happened for 5.N for other values of N in the (1,2,3,4,5) range. >5.002 says "prototypes". 5.003 is marked as a "security release". >5.004 is marked as a "maintenance release". > >You don't want perl5.6 -- you want perl6. I think the change of version number scheme had a psychological effect on people as well, disguising the fact that it's only a subversion update. My, it should be nearly 600 times better than the previous release! -- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E. Groeschel)