Why I Like Perl

Active Development

Perl 5.6 released in 2000
Perl 5.6.1 released in 2001
Perl 5.8 released in 2002
Parrot under active development
Perl 6 under design...
- a bit slow, to be sure
- but a lot of big changes
- has revitalized Perl 5.x development
- many ideas backported to Perl 5 -- see Perl6ish::* in CPAN
- depends much on Parrot anyway
- some working code in Parrot distribution now...
Expect 5.10 in 2004
Most user-level changes evident in CPAN anyway
See http://history.perl.org/

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