🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MPG.13dcd9ad722cdebc989689@news.demon.co.uk>, Pak Chan
<Pak.Chan@metameme.demon.co.uk> writes

>I was given the impression that Demon ran Perl 5 on their servers. Is 
>this not the case? Anyone from Demon Internet care to confirm this?

[this is the sort of question to ask in demon.ip.www where there's
significantly greater chance of experts seeing it!]

This is the latest info I have ... things may have moved on!

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Support is provided for Perl v4 and upwards.  In particular the latest
version of Perl on the old servers (retired late 99) was Perl v5.001m.
On the servers being run since then, the latest version is Perl
v5.005_03.

Scripts that start with #!/bin/perl5 will automatically use the very
latest version. Since Perl is upwards compatible this should give no
problems. Anyone who is particularly concerned to use exactly the same
Perl interpreter as on the old servers will need to alter their scripts
to start with a #!/bin/perl5.001m line.

Scripts that start #!/bin/perl will continue to use Perl 4 just as on
the old servers.

Demon Internet uses a standard installation of Perl, with nothing added
(from CPAN or wherever) but nothing taken away either! Newer versions of
Perl have many more modules shipped with them as standard, so this may
give customers the opportunity of simplifying their scripting.

Full details of the differences between versions of Perl, and
documentation for all the standard Perl modules, can be found on the web
at http://www.perl.com/.

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