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in reply to Re^2: Which Perl version shall I use?
in thread Which Perl version shall I use?

They come with 5.8.8 because they're slow and their software is generally outdated. 5.8.8 is very common because it was the newest stable release for a long time. It no longer is. Go with 5.10.1. There's many, many bug fixes in it that you WANT.