have to waste bandwidth or space with giant toolchains or
architecture-specific binaries.
- Furthermore, Perl documentation is typically installed as
- manpages, allowing users to quickly access and learn it
- offline.
+ Furthermore, Perl documentation is typically installed
+ locally as manpages, allowing users to quickly refer
+ to documentation as needed.
* Scripted, always editable by the end user
Perl had fewer breaking changes than Python or Ruby; we
expect that trend to continue given the inertia of Perl 5.
+ Note: this document was written before the Perl 7 announcement.
+ We'll continue to monitor and adapt to the situation around
+ what distros are doing in regard to maintaining compatibility.
+
* Built for text processing
Our focus is plain-text mail, and Perl has many built-ins