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What's the oldest Perl you run in prod?

will the perl 4 user please speak up :>

rk: not a typewriter

@leah

I worked at a place in…2014 I think…that required that we use whatever version of Perl came with FreeBSD 4, so Perl 5.6.0.

Not for any reason other than we had a manager who was convinced we’d sell more product by saying we’d work on a 14 year old version of FreeBSD. To my knowledge we never sold a single instance of the product on anything other than the latest version of RHEL.