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continuational on June 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

The reason that code written 20 years ago still runs fine is that they rolled back 20 years of changes!

1996 on June 24, 2020 [–]

This is a pointless attack. The modules available on CPAN usually have a strong emphasis on backwards compatibility.

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