> 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. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen