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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> writes:

> As I think I only went from perl 5.6 to 5.8, I'm surprised that so much would
> be out of date. Good to know though. Do the other scripting languages have
> this kind of support? Python?

Even among scripting languages, perl is unique in its pathological
lack of backward compatibility.  The FreeBSD maintainers do a nice job
of limiting the pain, but you *do* have to follow their directions.