Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl 4/5

[Vicki Brown <vlb@apple.com>]

>Sent:        3/1/96 1:25 AM
>From:        Bill Brayman, brayman@zuben.ca.boeing.com
>I was sort of assuming that I could use Perl 5 now.  Is that not a good 
>assumption?

>Sent:        3/1/96 5:05 PM
>From:        Hal Wine, hal@dtor.com
>>From the traffic on both clpm and this list, it looks as if Perl5 &
>MacPerl5 are stable for normal cases.  Personally, learning a new
>language (which Perl 5 is IMO) is a ways down on my list of things to
>learn, so I won't be adopting Perl 5 until I need it.  This means that
>anything I'd put in the FAQ about that or CGI stuff will be hearsay.

My MacPerl 4.1.8 scripts have been running happily under MacPerl, and now 
seem to run very nicely under MacPerl 5.0.6. I would say that the Bill's 
assumption is quite a good one, certainly regarding MacPerl5 (and Perl5 
by extension).

I can't think of Perl5 as a new language, only as a very nice upgrade.  
Bugs fixed; features added.  Worth switching to.

Vicki