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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Oldest supported Perl version
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:58:51 -0500
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:11, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> It looks like 5.6.0 was released a DECADE ago. Drop it.
>
> What part of "causing others a lot of pain" did you not understand,
> exactly?

I'd say: Take your own advice.

It's very likely that requiring compatibility with a DECADE old perl
is going to cause others a lot of pain.

At some point, backward compatibility is just stupid; it's meant for TRANSITION.