Most Linux systems will come with a version of Perl already installed. In this article, we'll look at some of the new Perl features that you might have missed. Version 5.36 was released in May 2022 and is very different to version 5.6.0, which was current back in the summer of 2000. The Perl 5 team have developed an annual release cycle, where a new version is released in about May of every year. This is unfortunate as Perl has undergone massive changes in the new millennium. And this has, unsurprisingly, led to a large part of the industry assuming that Perl hasn't changed much over that time. The narrative was then changed to describe Perl 6 as a new language in the Perl family.Ī production version of Perl 6 was released at the end of 2015 and, in 2019, the developers bowed to the inevitable and renamed the language to Raku in order to emphasise its break from Perl.Īll of this meant that for almost twenty years, Perl had no next version number to use.

Over the next several years, the scope of the project expanded until it became obvious that Perl 6 wasn't going to be an evolution of Perl 5 but, rather, a revolutionary new language with its roots in Perl. In July 2000, Perl 6 was announced as the next version of Perl. And, sadly, that's a completely understandable belief as the major version number hasn't changed since 1994. If you were to search the internet for recent articles about Perl, you might well be led to believe that the language hasn't changed in the last twenty years.

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