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Espen Vestre  
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 More options Mar 28 2000, 3:00 am
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From: Espen Vestre <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
Date: 2000/03/28
Subject: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
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Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com> writes:
> Too right. I upgraded from perl 5.00mumble to perl 5.00(incf mumble),
> half our perl stuff we got from CPAN just broke, and I haven't yet
> found time to mend it.  Version hell.

How true.  I think there are quite a lot of large websites who haven't
yet upgraded from 5.003, since the entire *language* changed in the
.004 and .005 versions. The result: Loads of cgi-scripts that start with
a #!/usr/bin/perl5.004 (or .005).  Horryfying.

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  (espen)


 
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