Perl 5.10

Organization Perl Foundation has informed on release of the new version of the dynamic programming language PERL which has received an index 5.10.

A number of essential innovations and improvements are included in structure PERL 5.10. Developers, in particular, allocate improvements in regular expressions, and also the advanced mechanism of support UTF-8. Besides there was a "clever" operator of search of conformity, the interpreter, a subsystem of delivery of error messages and the mechanism of distribution of memory have been modified. At last, the structure of updating PERL with an index 5.10 included some opportunities of language PERL 6 developed since 2000.

It is necessary to notice, that to language PERL (in abbreviated form from Practical Extraction and Report Language) one and a half weeks ago it was executed twenty years. Authorship PERL belongs to the programmer of company Unisys Larri Uoll; its primary purpose was creation of universal language by means of which it would be easier to cope with the text information. First version PERL was issued on December, 18th, 1987

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