Threads are not really in 5.005 either, they were an
experimental feature. Not just experimental, they were
also unstable! 5.6 plays around with a slightly different
threading model. You also shouldn't trust that.
Please, please, please do not lead people to believe that
they can use threaded Perl. They should not. The first
version of Perl that is likely to have a threading model
you can depend on surviving and being maintained will be
6.0. Telling people otherwise is just inviting them to get
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This has virtually never been true, that MacPerl is not useful. Very few things have ever required 5.005, but even if they did, MacPerl has always been very useful for many things that don't (ask all the people who have used MacPerl for the past several years with libnet, LWP, SOAP, XML parsing, DBI access, Mac-specific modules, etc.). Of course, MacPerl is now at 5.6.1/5.6.2 (more advanced than any other release of perl, at least, until 5.8.0 comes out :-), so it's all moot.
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