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> > It can go away for all I care.  I'm hard pressed to think of anything
> > I use that requires perl4.  If I'm wrong, tell me. :)
> 
> This list.
> 
> > Many of you mentioned that Perl 5 does not have a book as a good reason
> > for not using it.  I would just like to say that I noticed O'Reilly will
> > be releasing one this spring (April?), so that argument is not going to
> > be valid much longer.
> 
> Call us back when it's available in bookstores near us.

Hmm, "current version has more documentation" and "my software might break
if I switch to the other version"... sounds like someone trying to
rationalize not switching from Linux to FreeBSD :-)