[Chicago-talk] Perl 5.8.5 is out (fwd)
Steven Lembark
lembark at wrkhors.com
Wed Jul 21 16:35:27 CDT 2004
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From: Stas Bekman <stas at stason.org>
Subject: Perl 5.8.5 is out
> See this thread for more details of why you may want to upgrade to this
> Perl version:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108979157900009&r=1&w=2
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 5.8.5
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:21:47 +0100
> From: Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org>
> To: perl5-porters at perl.org
>
> Yews are relatively slow growing trees, widely used in landscaping
> and
> ornamental horticulture. They have flat, dark-green needles, reddish
> bark, and bear seeds with red arils, which are eaten by thrushes,
> waxwings and other birds, dispersing the hard seeds undamaged in
> their
> droppings. Yew wood is reddish brown (with white sapwood), and very
> hard. It was traditionally used to make bows, especially the English
> longbow.
>
> In England, the Common Yew (Taxus baccata, also known as English
> Yew) is
> often found in churchyards. It is sometimes suggested that these are
> placed there as a symbol of long life or trees of death, and some are
> likely to be over 3,000 years old. It is also suggested that yew
> trees
> may have a pre-Christian association with old pagan holy sites, and
> the
> Christian church found it expedient to use and take over existing
> sites. Another explanation is that the poisonous berries and foliage
> discourage farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into
> the burial grounds. The yew tree is a frequent symbol in the
> Christian
> poetry of T.S. Eliot, especially his Four Quartets.
>
> (From Wikipedia)
>
> http://opensource.fotango.com/~nclark/perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2
>
> (or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 25% larger download.)
>
> coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as
>
> ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2
>
> md5sums are
>
> 9db6be76aa275f415d75c224ad1d4029 perl-5.8.5.tar.bz2
> 49baa8d7d29b4a9713c06edeb81e6b1b perl-5.8.5.tar.gz
>
>
> A use.perl announcement will follow once the tarballs have had time to
> propagate.
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
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