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.
+ As of April 2021, the Perl Steering Committee has confirmed
+ Perl 7 will require `use v7.0' and existing code should
+ continue working unchanged:
+ https://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/259789
+ <CAMvkq_SyTKZD=1=mHXwyzVYYDQb8Go0N0TuE5ZATYe_M4BCm-g@mail.gmail.com>
+
* Built for text processing
Our focus is plain-text mail, and Perl has many built-ins