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
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