Re: Oldest supported Perl version

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 14:11, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Michael Witten wrote:

quoted

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.