perl5.005_57 Hits Shelves to Rave Reviews

pudge on 1999-05-27T12:53:11

   `Hm! Here we are!' said Treebeard, breaking his long silence.
   `I have brought you about seventy thousand ent-strides, but
    what that comes to in the measurement of your land I do not
    know.  Anyhow we are near the roots of the last mountain.

                         --Treebeard, LOTR II, J R R Tolkien

There have been lots of updates to this development release of perl (for current stable releases, see 5.004_05 and 5.005_03). See Sarathy's CPAN directory for the files. Tom Christiansen posted the release notes and released the documentation for this release (pod and man versions together):