note moritz <p>If your code base now runs on perl 5.8 only,
eventually you will have to upgrade. At some point in the future
you'll have new hardware on which the legacy OS that come with
legacy perl won't boot anymore, so it's not a question whether
you upgrade, but when.</p> <p>With that in mind, advice of the
form "Upgrade to at least perl 5.12 because it fixes your
$problem" is actually quite valuable, because it gives you
reason not delay the upgrade any longer.</p> <p>Also the more
incentive you have to upgrade, the easier it becomes to convince
your manager that now would be a good time to spend your
resources on upgrading to a newer version of perl. And a list of
issues that would be much easier to fix with a newer version of
perl is exactly the kind of incentive that convinces
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