During the French Perl Workshop, David Landgren (the current p5p summarizer) made a long presentation about what's new in Perl 5.10. My reaction to it:
Perl 5 is the only programming language that inherits from the future!
Re:Err, Python?
sigzero on 2006-12-19T14:32:52
Python has "from __future__ import"Yes and Python has had it for a long long time. Tim Peters is often accused of having a time machine. I think that was his name anyway.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/python/tut/node17.html#l2 h-44