Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by Phra » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 10:16 AM UTC

Perl 5.17.6 is now available
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Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by rnadna » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:07 AM UTC

Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by almost » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:09 AM UTC

rnadna wrote: post #2

Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.

There's no need for snark, it adds nothing to the conversation and makes you seem like a bit of a dick.

There's a load of interesting stuff happening in Perl, I don't use the language myself but I'm interested in what they're up to.

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by LoonyPandora » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:12 AM UTC

In case it's not clear, this is a development version along the road to the stable 5.18 release, expected in May 2013.

The Perl core team are getting very good at timeboxing their development and releasing on time.

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by ojosilva » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:15 AM UTC

Here's the delta with the changes: https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perldelta.p...

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by peteretep » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:18 AM UTC

Good to see so much active work on Unicode support. Really feels like Perl is coming in to its own as the language to use with Unicode text...

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by peteretep » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:21 AM UTC

rnadna wrote: post #2

Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.

15 years ago you could have replied to it on /. with "F1rst P0st" and been vaguely relevant.

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by draegtun » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:36 AM UTC

ojosilva wrote: post #5

Here's the delta with the changes: https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perldelta.p...

And below are all the delta changes in 5.17 uptil 5.17.6:

* 5.17.0 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5170del...

* 5.17.1 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5171del...

* 5.17.2 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5172del...

* 5.17.3 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5173del...

* 5.17.4 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5174del...

* 5.17.5 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5175del...

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by lloeki » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:41 AM UTC

rnadna wrote: post #2

Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.

Despite being a pythonista at heart and a rubyist at work, Perl is still my go-to language for when I notice bash scripts getting messy and growing out of scope and destined to enrich my personal long-term unix toolset.

Yes, Perl is still very relevant today, for me and for countless others[0]

[0]: https://github.com/languages

Re: Perl 5.17.6 is now available

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Post by hahainternet » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:45 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #6

Good to see so much active work on Unicode support. Really feels like Perl is coming in to its own as the language to use with Unicode text...

Unless you've been living under a rock Perl has been the goto language for Unicode support for half a decade now.