Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?
On 2023-04-03 11:48:42 +0500, Stanislav Vlasov wrote:
> And I saw perl5 scripts from past (about 5.6 or lower), which can't
> run on perl5 from current (5.22 or so at the moment).
I would say that's quite rare (or these scripts were using
experimental features). I started with perl 5.000 in early 1995,
I think (the oldest Perl script I still have in my archives is
from 1995-02-12), and wrote many Perl scripts, and couldn't see
any incompatibility, except some rare warnings on poorly written
code (very easy to fix). For my work, I'm still running large
complex scripts I started to write in January 1999.
Practical incompatibilities in the C language are much worse with
modern optimizations.
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