Re: [RANT] Should we try to keep compatibility with old perl5s?

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:41:54 +0200
Xavier Noria <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’ve been out of the Perl community for many years, but to give you an
> example of the opposite trend, in Rails we drop support for old Ruby really
> fast. People need to move forward if they want to upgrade Rails (and
> culturally, they normally do).
> 
> Giving this example to subscribe something already said in this thread. If
> the project is yours, you set the rules, it’s your work and your time, so
> it is your call.

Speaking of Rails, is this true:
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=compiling-a-C-program-from-20-years-ago ?

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