First Perl Revamp in Five Years Released

[HardOCP News]

According to this news item, the Perl Foundation has released the first new version in five years, bringing it up to version 5.10.

The new version has some features designed to make programming a notch easier, according to the announcement last week. Among those features is a "say" command that eases some text-output chores, a "switch" operator to send a program in various directions depending on different situations, and improvements to the all-important "regular expression" methods for handling text. The Perl interpreter, which runs Perl programs, also is faster and requires less memory, the foundation said.