AWOL: jpo

Steven Bakker sb at monkey-mind.net
Fri Nov 23 10:04:24 UTC 2007


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




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