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gizzlon on Aug 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl

"Perl 5 is still what a large portion on what the community uses, so it's not out of date"

Just FYI, Perl 5 have changed a lot the last 10 years..

berntb on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

... but is still very, very backwards compatible.

(Just to be complete.)

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