> However, yesterday, some simple IO::Socket scripts failed to work on
> 5.6.  I'm not addressing that here but my resulting thought is now

I hope you will be addressing them in the form of perlbug reports
so that the problems in 5.6 will be recorded and sorted out.

> Those should be kept short as sweet and there should be real-time
> testing at every stage of development.

"real-time testing"?  Please elaborate.  

> Otherwise we will lose our position as the mission critical control
> language.

I think Larry was once said that he wouldn't want to fly if the
flight control system were written in Perl.

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