[tpm] Article on the future of Perl

[Adam Prime]

James E Keenan wrote:

> 
> I remember Piers as a commanding presence, physically and intellectually
> :-), at YAPCs past, particularly in Boca Raton and Paris in 2003.
> 
> The point where I would quarrel with him is when he cites some unnamed
> other source as characterizing Perl 5.10.0 as a 'testing' release.  I
> never heard anyone describe it like that.  Quite to the contrary, I just
> did an upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 last week, and I was pleasantly surprised
> to see that their default Perl was 5.10.  I doubt that they would have
> included 5.10 in the distro if they felt it was still a 'testing' release.

I believe that would be in reference to this:

http://cpan.org/src/README.html

Which states that 5.10.0 is a testing release.

Adam