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In the real world, I've found Perl scripts written in 1999 (and poorly - as they were written by me in my teens) will still run in 2019. It's basically the policy that even language mistakes won't be undone:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#BACKWARD-COMPATIBIL...




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