# from Dave Rolsky
# on Wednesday 08 April 2009 17:58:
>I, as a module author providing you a free product, don't have to give
> a damn. Realistically, authors give some amount of damn, but maybe
> not a full "I'll support Perl 5.004 for the poor slobs using ancient
> Red Hat boxes".
Exactly. If you treat Perl like a legacy language, there won't be any
new users and you won't have any problems of some new code not being
compatible with your old code because there won't be any new code.
--Eric
--
... unsustainable. And that word means something -- it doesn't just
mean "we don't like it".
--Michael Pollan
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