> I really, really like that I can, more often than not, take a program I wrote decades ago and it will still run properly.
That wouldn't have changed with Perl 7, because Perl 5 would have been put into "long term maintenance mode". In fact, backward compatibility would have been even stronger, because all the changes would have gone into Perl 7.
That wouldn't have changed with Perl 7, because Perl 5 would have been put into "long term maintenance mode". In fact, backward compatibility would have been even stronger, because all the changes would have gone into Perl 7.