Perl 5.10.0 is out

[ixolit]

Hi all.
Big event for Perl fans! Perl 5.10.0 was released with a lot of significant new language features and interpreter improvements.

Quick overview here:
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html
and here:
http://search.cpan.org/%7Ergarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod

Hope we will see 5.10 in our repositories soon.

[RupertPupkin]

And all 12 of the remaining Perl users rejoice! :p

[sej7278]

saw this on slashdot, a couple of nice features there, plus 20th anniversary.

named captures in regexes and a faster regex engine - perlre is considered about as good as it gets and sets the standard for all programming languages and unix itself, so a faster more feature-packed version is very cool.

i'm stopping using perl when perl6 arrives (looks awful) so a new version of 5 is good news!

[ibbo]

How could Perl get any more feature packed when every tom dick an harry has written a PERL module to something be it ftp to image manip.

I used to use PERL a lot but find ruby kicks it to death not only in dev time but in actual lines of code too. Of course PERL is still massively used and I have the uptmost respect for the language and many of its 3rd party modules.

Ibbo