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in reply to I coulda sworn CPAN and being wired to think like your brain were the reasons for Perl's longevity

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Huh?

And I really like how they stop the Perl lineage at 4.000 in 1991. Because nothing notable in Perl has been released since...

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Re^2: I coulda sworn CPAN and being wired to think like your brain were the reasons for Perl's longevity
by parv (Parson) on Nov 07, 2007 at 09:25 UTC
    If you look carefully there is a arrow on the right inidicating that story continues per legend (perhaps ran out of time, space, and labour).

      Yes, but plenty of other languages have multiple version updates continuing onward. I would think that Perl 5 is a fairly major change from Perl 4 and by 2001 when the graph ends, I think that Perl 5.005 was the modern version of Perl at the time.

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