On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:41:25 -0700 Richi Plana wrote:
As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
since the developers are extremely quiet about it.
They're probably quiet about it because they prefer coding over talking :-)
Perl 5.10-RC1 has been unleashed recently[1], full of nice new
features[2], borrowing some from (the still-vaporware) Perl6 (named
capture buffers!).
[1]
http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC1/
[2]
http://www.slideshare.net/rjbs/perl-510-for-people-who-arent-totally-insane
-- Steven