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I think this poem was present in Programming Perl, 1st edition, which covers Perl 4.

• koenigdavidmj 17y ago
  Perl 4 and the book's first edition were released simultaneously, and Perl 4 was merely a version of the Perl 3 interpreter. Depending on who you ask, this decision was either for convenience ("this book teaches Perl 4" is easier to say than "this book teaches Perl 3.numbers.here") or marketing ("look--Perl 4 came out!"), the latter sort of like Slackware's increment of version numbers from 4 to 7.
  • pyre 17y ago
    > the latter sort of like Slackware's increment of version numbers from 4 to 7 That was done because all of the other distros at the time had higher version numbers and people were looking at Slackware with a, "Well, it's only version 4. RedHat/Mandrake/etc are already on version 7!" attitude. I remember there being a written (web) justification for it.