It was an odd day, with two major computer geek milestones hitting at once:
- Netscape, the web browser, is being shut down. It's not the first browser I ever used, but was almost certainly the first third-party browser I used... and I haven't gone near it in years, thanks to Firefox, but it's still noteworthy.
- Perl, the scripting language, got a new release today... the first new release in five years, which is practically an eternity in computer time. It's a testament to how solid the language was, in spite of all the hate it garners (and I've given my share, to be sure). On the other hand, the new version looks to finally support "switch statements", something the language has sorely lacked... and, as an added bonus, it's more than just a simple switch, allowing things like regular expression matching and... whoops, got a bit too far into geekdom that time... :)
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