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Frank Keep It Simple, Stupid  Re^3: What is a really old version
of Perl? (you lost)  by tobyink (Monsignor) on Jun 26, 2012 at
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in reply to Re^2: What is a really old version of Perl? (you
lost) in thread What is a really old version of Perl?  My point
is not that nobody should run 5.8, but rather than nobody should
run 5.8 and expect to be able to download recently written code
and have it "just work".  Using a legacy version of Perl to run
legacy code (and I understand it, there's a picture of the
Perlmonks code if you look up "legacy code" in the dictionary)
is clearly fine.  Perl 5.8 first came into this world in 2002;
the same year as Windows XP. The latest releases of Internet
Explorer don't run on Windows XP. If one of the largest
commercial software developers on the planet will not support
products 10 years old that have had multiple stable releases
since, then why should unpa