=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 10127 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl
=head1 DESCRIPTION
(contributed by brian d foy)
There is often a matter of opinion and taste, and there isn't any one
-answer that fits anyone. In general, you want to use either the current
+answer that fits everyone. In general, you want to use either the current
stable release, or the stable release immediately prior to that one.
-Currently, those are perl5.8.x and perl5.6.x, respectively.
+Currently, those are perl5.10.x and perl5.8.x, respectively.
Beyond that, you have to consider several things and decide which is best
for you.
=item *
-The immediate, previous releases (i.e. perl5.6.x ) are usually maintained
+The immediate, previous releases (i.e. perl5.8.x ) are usually maintained
for a while, although not at the same level as the current releases.
=item *
=item *
-There is no Perl 6 for the next couple of years. Stay tuned, but don't
-worry that you'll have to change major versions of Perl soon (i.e. before
-2008).
+There is no Perl 6 release scheduled, but it will be available when
+it's ready. Stay tuned, but don't worry that you'll have to change
+major versions of Perl; no one is going to take Perl 5 away from you.
=item *
There are really two tracks of perl development: a maintenance version
and an experimental version. The maintenance versions are stable, and
-have an even number as the minor release (i.e. perl5.8.x, where 8 is the
+have an even number as the minor release (i.e. perl5.10.x, where 10 is the
minor release). The experimental versions may include features that
don't make it into the stable versions, and have an odd number as the
minor release (i.e. perl5.9.x, where 9 is the minor release).
of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately abandoned.
If you want to learn more about Perl 6, or have a desire to help in
-the crusade to make Perl a better place then peruse the Perl 6 developers
+the crusade to make Perl a better place then read the Perl 6 developers
page at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ and get involved.
Perl 6 is not scheduled for release yet, and Perl 5 will still be supported
One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses "Perl" to
signify the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it, i.e.
the current interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can
-parse Perl."
+parse Perl."
Before the first edition of I<Programming perl>, people commonly
referred to the language as "perl", and its name appeared that way in
previously used the phrase with many subjects ("Just another x hacker,"),
so to distinguish his JAPH, he started to write them as Perl programs:
- print "Just another Perl hacker, ";
-
-Note the trailing comma and space, which allows the addition of other
-JAxH clauses for his many other interests.
+ print "Just another Perl hacker,";
Other people picked up on this and started to write clever or obfuscated
programs to produce the same output, spinning things quickly out of
=back
-=head1 REVISION
-
-Revision: $Revision: 10127 $
-
-Date: $Date: 2007-10-27 21:40:20 +0200 (Sat, 27 Oct 2007) $
-
-See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability.
-
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
+Copyright (c) 1997-2010 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
other authors as noted. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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