“The next version of Perl will be known as 5.6 instead of
5.006 (or 5.1). In this interview, Gurusamy Sarathy explains what
new features you might expect in Perl 5.6. Sarathy holds the
patch pumpkin for this release. Sarathy is joined by Dick Hardt who
elaborates on how some of the new developments improve Perl on the
Windows platform. Sarathy and Hardt are from ActiveState Tools
Corp.The Perl Porters group is putting together all the alpha-stage
components for Perl 5.6, which should be available as a beta in
mid-August.
“This inteview also includes two RealAudio clips, one in which
Sarathy discusses threading in Perl and the other in which he
explains the compiler models used in Perl.”