- perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter. SYNOPSIS¶. perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna...
- 1. Perl 5.000. It was introduced in October 17th, 1994. This version had the complete rewritten feature of the interpreter.
- Some vendors introduced their own perl bugs, twice! For hacking perl internals, and thus required to install multilpe versions from specific commits in perl5.git.
- Perl 5.20 would work, but had many bugs which have now been fixed. Many CPAN modules that ship with Perl still fail tests, including Pod::Simple.
- How to install from source. wget https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.40.0.tar.gz. ... cd perl-5.40.0. ./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl.
- Only recently we had a big bang release of Perl v5.38 with experimental class feature. Now in a quick succession we have another release Perl v5.39.1.
- Ubiquity and stability. Perl 5 is installed on just about every modern Unix system, and the CPAN module collection is extensive and easy to install.
- Do you want to get started with Perl v5.36? Honestly speaking I never bothered about any of the Perl releases before. But Perl v5.36 is very special and close to me.
- ...can **Run** your script in Padre first, before you try to Debug it. for start up parameters look at Tools -> Preferences -> language-Perl5: Perl-Arguments.