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December 19, 2007

Perl 5.10.0 Released

Posted: 2007-12-19 21:30:33
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Perl 5.10.0 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: the new smart match operator, capturing matches based on names, a switch statement, state variables, a defined-or operator, improved error messages, a smaller and faster interpreter, UTF-8 improvements, threading improvements, and other changes.