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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by perlgeek on Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:20AM (#8907336)
There's really not much point. Perl 5 is 99% backwards compatible with Perl 4, so if you think Perl 4 was great, just use the Perl 5 compiler (but none of the new features).
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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by duskwuff on Sunday January 18, 2015 @12:45PM (#8908132)
Perl5 even still supports some of the really ugly features of Perl4 that people generally wish would go away (like &function_calls, and nested'packages'like'this.)
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