May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
4h 11m
English
To develop Perl programs correctly, you should understand the versions of Perl that are available and which one you should use. Perl 5.000 was released on October 17, 1994. It was a nearly complete rewrite of Perl 4; however, it was (mostly) backward compatible to Perl 4.
The goal was to create a more efficient language that also had additional useful features. After the release of version 5.000, additional releases were made:
Date | Release |
|---|---|
March 13, 1995 | 5.001 |
February 29, 1996 | 5.002 |
June 25, 1996 | 5.003 |
May 15, 1997 | 5.004 |
July 22, 1998 | 5.005 |
Minor versions (mostly ...