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Re: poll ideas quest 2023 (perl version)
by hippo (Bishop) on Jan 27, 2023 at 16:16 UTC
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Not sure if "the stability of the system perl suits me better" is intended to cover this, but:
- the cost of potentially introducing new bugs far outweighs the benefit of (this list of) new features;
- last time I upgraded everything broke, I don't want to do that again.
The first of those pretty much covers the perl I use for maths research - it is currently running on 5.34, but I tend to upgrade it very rarely. If I find a bug that affects my maths results, I potentially have to rerun tens of CPU-years-worth of calculations. (Last time that happened I was lucky that I had just moved to a much faster new computer, so it only took 6 months to recompute the previous 10 years of calculations.)
The second covers a couple of companies I used to work for.
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G'day hippo,
I really like this idea for a poll.
If this is used in the next few months, replace "latest version" with v5.36;
if later in 2023, use v5.38.
There's also the possibility that "latest version" is v7.0.
Anyway, I'm just thinking that attitudes may change depending on what that "latest version" is.
Furthermore, an option should be provided for those with the opposite preference.
I'm not sure of the best wording; perhaps something like:
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well, actually, I have no such preference: I'm happily using <latest version>
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I'm waiting for IndigoStar Software to release "perl2exe" for the latest version of Perl.
"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."
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- I'm stuck where Strawberry Perl is
L*
There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
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- because older perls are faster
L*
There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
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Is there still a page that benchmarks different Perl versions? I haven't seen it since about 5.26 and my Google-Fu doesn't help me finding it.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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