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Moderl Perl is the recent versions of perl, like modern Java is the recent versions of Java. But Perl is more flexible providing forward compatibility.

For stability, Perl defaults to an old stable behavior. Modern features are opt-in Perl::Modern is a handy way to select a version, sort of like Python's `from future import foo`

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