[Omaha.pm] Fwd: Perl 5.10.0 is released

[Jay Hannah]

I'm looking forward to using  //   and   //=    :)

http://www.slideshare.net/acme/whats-new-in-perl-510

j


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:11:46PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>     He would often declare, in speaking his thoughts upon the subject,
>     that he did not conceive how the greatest family in England could
>     stand it out against an uninterrupted succession of six or seven
>     short noses.--And for the contrary reason, he would generally add,
>     That it must be one of the greatest problems in civil life, where
>     the same number of long and jolly noses, following one another in a
>     direct line, did not raise and hoist it up into the best vacancies
>     in the kingdom.
>         -- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
> 
> Perl 5.10.0 is now out, the first in the 5.10.x major version series,
> after a five year long development process. It's currently being
> mirrored on CPAN.
> 
> A more formal announcement will follow via the usual canals.
> I'm told a press release is also in the works.
> 
> I would like to thank everyone on perl5-porters for their efforts. I
> hope we'll all be proud of what Perl is becoming. And ready to get back
> to the keyboard for 5.12, for which, I hope, we'll not wait as long as
> we waited for 5.10.
> 
> As a personal note, I can't wait to use 5.10 in production. All those
> new features are quite exciting, aren't they?
> 
> Enjoy !