Perl 5.14 Released 187
chromatic writes "Pumpking Jesse Vincent has just released Perl 5.14, the latest stable version of the venerable Perl 5 programming language. The list of changes in Perl 5.14 includes several enhancements, including performance tuning, Unicode improvements, and updates to the core libraries and documentation. Perl 5.16 is on track for a release next April."
Re:What about Perl 6? (Score:5, Funny)
I was just going to say that back in about 2001 someone gave me advice not to learn Perl 5 because a Perl 6 release was imminent.
The question nobody wants to ask.... (Score:4, Funny)
.... does it have any new operator? :-P
And before you tell, it was just a joke, I know you should now add operators in a minor release.
Re:Meh. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:but the power (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody's mind is in a good shape after coding in Perl. Even reading it can cause mild permanent brain damage. Someone who writes a reasonably complex app in Perl has a very good chance of developing an uncontrollable homicidal rage and other social problems. For example, I hear the Unibomber, Timothy McVeigh, Dieter Simader, and bin Laden are all accomplished Perl grey beards.
Re:Perl - the COBOL of scripting languages (Score:3, Funny)
In Perl:
curl -sL 'http://slashdot.org/index.rss' |perl -ne 'm/<title>(.+?)</ && print "- $1\n";'
Same thing in PHP5:
curl -sL 'http://slashdot.org/index.rss' |php5 -r '$h = fopen("php://stdin","r"); while(! feof($h)){$line=fgets($h); if(preg_match("/<title>(.+?)</",$line,$match)){echo "- ".$match[1]."\n";}}'
... and if you say "well, php5 is simpler for what *I* need," I'mma gonna poke you for thinking that everyone else has the same needs as you.