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Postings from February 2007
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:59:33PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:11, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > > > Maybe y'all ought to break Perl once. Then all of a sudden, some > > company will lose a million bucks and realize how insane it is that > > they didn't keep a core Perl programmer on staff as an insurance policy. > > Or stop supporting ancient versions, where "ancient" means "more than two > years old". I've not really seen anything substantive updated to 5.6.x recently, yet firms still use it, and don't seem to be upset that no-one seems to support it actively, certainly not so upset that they want to pay for it. And whilst I thought that 5.004 was the oldest thing currently in production, someone on IRC (who may wish to de-anonymise) said: "last week's project was rewrite a script from perl4 to 5.8.8" There doesn't seem to be a market for supporting the currently unsupported. Nicholas Clark