Announcing Perl 7 Jun 24, 2020 by brian d foy image credit: Darren Wood, “7”, on Flickr. This morning at The Perl Conference in the Cloud, Sawyer X announced that Perl has a new plan moving forward. Work on Perl 7 is already underway, but it’s not going to be a huge change in code or syntax. It’s Perl 5 with modern defaults and it sets the stage for bigger changes later. My latest book Preparing f
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