Hi, On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another thought: how outdated is this DOS version of perl? I know it's Perl > 5.8.8 and the current version is 5.32.x. > But how "far apart" are those two versions? (It's been years since I > intentionally wrote a perl script, so I don't know.)
I've never done any Perl programming. (I have an old book from my brother, but neither of us ever read it.) But I greatly respect Larry Wall. It's not perfect (nor is anything), but it can sometimes rarely be useful (e.g. rebuilding NASM instruction tables to save RAM). (AFAIK) Perl 6 was officially renamed Rakudo. Perl 7 is the "next generation" based upon Perl 5.32 (with "shrinking" [??] backwards compatibility, saner defaults [use strict ??]). Perl 5 has been around, in various forms, since 1994. Our build of 5.8.8 (from DJGPP) is from 2008. To be honest, there are so many languages that everything overlaps: Python, Ruby, REXX, AWK, Sed, etc. For most basic things, I would greatly prefer AWK or Sed. I'm not aware of much in FreeDOS that would need Perl. (Devore's NoMySo does, but few here seem to use it.) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
