The beauty of Perl lies in its backward compatibility. Despite our codebase spanning over two decades, upgrading Perl across versions has never broken our code. In contrast, with other languages, we’ve observed issues like API changes causing extensive refactoring or even rewrites.
I think that’s a worthwhile feature in a programming language. I find it interesting how there are different approaches to it. IIRC Perl has that “use vX.Y.Z;” function for this.
I ran into an edge case once with signals handling that occurred around 5.14 or so. But that’s about the only breaking change I can remember hitting my own scripts since I started using Perl 5 at 5.003 (though I started with Perl with 4.036, and even most of those scripts still generally worked when we migrated to 5).
Did they… did they use AI to generate a transparency grid?
I think that’s a worthwhile feature in a programming language. I find it interesting how there are different approaches to it. IIRC Perl has that “use vX.Y.Z;” function for this.
I ran into an edge case once with signals handling that occurred around 5.14 or so. But that’s about the only breaking change I can remember hitting my own scripts since I started using Perl 5 at 5.003 (though I started with Perl with 4.036, and even most of those scripts still generally worked when we migrated to 5).