[Kc] Perl 5.10.0 is released
Andrew Moore
amoore at mooresystems.com
Tue Dec 18 10:18:02 PST 2007
fresh news from the perl5-porters mailing list.
-Andy
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 !
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