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Postings from February 2007
Am 27.02.2007 um 23:10 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > 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 > > In my opinion, old Perl versions used in companies are a big problem for Perl. The companies are not aware of new features and the current Perl development. They think that Perl hasn't been changed since 5.6.1 or so. One customer of my company was really happy to hear that there is a Perl 5.10 in sight! I think Perl needs some "PR" to make companies aware of Perls cabilities and future development... ReneeB > > --- renee.baecker@smart-websolutions.de Smart-Websolutions André Windolph und Renée Bäcker GbR Maria-Montessori-Str. 13 64584 Biebesheim USt.-ID: DE 228 935 695 Telefon: 01803 - 278 25 51 98 (9 cent/Minute) E-Mail: info@smart-websolutions.de