Perl 5.8.0 is out
Scott Penrose
scottp at dd.com.au
Sat Jul 20 17:58:07 CDT 2002
On Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 11:56 , Paul Fenwick wrote:
> G'day everyone,
>
> For those who haven't seen the news, Perl 5.8.0 has
> been released. See http://use.perl.org/ or just about any other
> Perl site for more details.
>
> I'm volunteering to give a "what's new in Perl 5.8.0"
> talk for the September meeting, unless there's any objections.
> I hear that the July meeting should already be chock-full of
> Bovine Perl goodness.
Hmmm.... I think you mean the August meet. We have already had a July
meet :-)
> Oh, if I haven't already posted it to the list, Randal
> won't be able to make it to the August PM meeting. He'll be at
> the SAGE-AU trivia night. I'll try to see if there are any nights
> when he will be free for a possible informal get together.
I have 5.8.0 installed on my laptop (Mac OS X) - it is working VERY
nice - of course you have to rebuild almost every CPAN module you had :-
( but that didn't take me that long.
You can use it for the demo What's New Demo if you would like.
Scott
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