Re^3: What is a really old version of Perl? (you lost)

in reply to Re^2: What is a really old version of Perl? (you lost)
in thread What is a really old version of Perl?

My point is not that nobody should run 5.8, but rather than nobody should run 5.8 and expect to be able to download recently written code and have it "just work".

Using a legacy version of Perl to run legacy code (and I understand it, there's a picture of the Perlmonks code if you look up "legacy code" in the dictionary) is clearly fine.

Perl 5.8 first came into this world in 2002; the same year as Windows XP. The latest releases of Internet Explorer don't run on Windows XP. If one of the largest commercial software developers on the planet will not support products 10 years old that have had multiple stable releases since, then why should unpaid open source developers?

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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