Today's latest and greatest software contains tomorrow's zero day exploits. Seriously though compiling Perl and thousands of modules takes time. That being said I use 5.26.2 because it's solid and has 12,986 modules installed.

I aim for the lowest score possible on perlver anyway which is always 5.6.0 because of the warnings pragma. Without warnings all my modern perl runs on 5.4.0 and probably down to the OG 5.002b3. I have never needed new features Larry didn't invent to get anything done with Perl so I probably wouldn't have noticed if they stopped development in 2000 to focus on making sure Perl continued to rule the world.

But alas we needed to impress the competition with features they still ignore, like lexical variables, so the web could be rewritten in php and python that resembles Perl 4. Now that we have the spectacular gift of Perl::Dist::APPerl I can fiddle with 5.36.0 by downloading a 25MB binary for instant fun times on Unix, Mac and Windows!

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