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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by earthboundkid on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:34PM (#23631114)
Perl was released in 1987. The languages released in the 90s all stole Perl/Awk's good idea (have an associative array/hash map/dict type as a builtin data type) but had much nicer syntax.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by dhosek on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:40PM (#23631219)
I stuck with Perl even when Ruby came along and offered to be the next best thing because Ruby didn't have a use strict equivalent. Having to declare variables before use is a good thing.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:38PM (#23631182)
Perl5 was released in October 1994. That's the version which competes with Python, Ruby and PHP because it introduced OOP.
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