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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by continuational on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:02PM (#23631541)
The reason that code written 20 years ago still runs fine is that they rolled back 20 years of changes!
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by 1996 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:08PM (#23633241)
This is a pointless attack. The modules available on CPAN usually have a strong emphasis on backwards compatibility.
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