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		canadiancreed on May 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Use Perl: Reliability For most of my previous employers, if I ever heard... "Hey, they just released a new major version of $LANGUAGE today. Can you go upgrade it on all our production servers?" I'd probably fall out of my chair from shock. Most employers that I've had tend to stick with the version of software that they honed their skills on and were hellbent against upgrading at any cost. (Note: Most of my former employers developed on the LAMP stack, which doesn't help PHP's rep much I suppose)

rcthompson on May 30, 2012 [–]

Well, maybe I should have asked what your second response would be after you got over the shock of your employer wanting to upgrade something. :)

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